Abantu abasengozini

Ungathola i-meningitis kunoma yimuphi unyaka. Nokho, ubungozi buphezulu kulaba bantu abalandelayo:

• Izingane ezingaphansi kweminyaka engu-2 ubudala;
• Intsha kanye nabantu abadala abasha abaneminyaka engu-18 kuya ku-24;
• Abadala;
• Abafundi basekolishi abahlala ezindlini zokulala (boarding school);
• Abasebenzi abavela ezisekelweni zempi;
• Izingane ezifunda ngokugcwele enkulisa (inkulisa);
• Abantu abanamasosha omzimba abuthakathaka. Lokhu kuhlanganisa abantu asebekhulile abanezinkinga zempilo ezingalapheki (isifo sikashukela, i-HIV-AIDS, ukuluthwa utshwala, umdlavuza), abantu abasekupheleni kokugula, labo abasebenzisa izidakamizwa ezenza amasosha omzimba abe buthaka.

Izici eziyingozi ze-meningitis

• Xhumana nomuntu onegciwane.

Amagciwane asakazwa yizinhlayiya zamathe ezikhona emoyeni noma ngokuthintana ngokuqondile nokushintshana kwamathe ngokuqabula, ukushintshana kwezitsha, ingilazi, ukudla, ugwayi, i-lipstick, njll.;

• Hlala emazweni lapho lesi sifo sidlange khona.

I-Meningitis ikhona emazweni amaningana kodwa izifo eziwumshayabhuqe ezivame kakhulu futhi ezivame ukuvela ezindaweni eziwugwadule.I-Afrika engaphansi kwe-Sahara, elibizwa ngokuthi “ibhande le-meningitis yase-Afrika”. Phakathi nezifo eziwumshayabhuqe, lesi sigameko sifinyelela ku-1 icala le-meningitis ngezakhamuzi eziyi-000. Sekukonke, i-Health Canada ibheka ingozi yokuthola i-meningitis njengephansi kubahambi abaningi. Ngokusobala, izingozi ziphezulu phakathi kwabahambi abahlala isikhathi eside noma phakathi kwalabo abanokuxhumana okuseduze nabantu bendawo endaweni abahlala kuyo, izithuthi zomphakathi noma indawo yabo yokusebenza;

• Bhema noma uchayeke entuthuni kagwayi.

Ukubhema kucatshangwa ukuthi kwandisa ingozi ye-meningococcal meningitis1. Ngaphezu kwalokho, ngokusho kwezinye izifundo, izingane kanye ukuchayeka entuthuni kagwayi kungaba sengozini enkulu ye-meningitis2,8. Abacwaningi eNyuvesi yase-Edinburgh baye baqaphela ukuthi intuthu kagwayi yenza kube lula ukunamathela kwamagciwane e-meningitis ezindongeni zomphimbo8;

• Ngokuvamile ukhathele noma ucindezelekile.

Lezi zici zenza amasosha omzimba abe buthaka, kanye nezifo ezibangela ubuthakathaka bomzimba (isifo sikashukela, i-HIV-AIDS, ukuphuza utshwala, umdlavuza, ukufakelwa kwezitho zomzimba, ukukhulelwa, ukwelashwa kwe-corticosteroid, njll.)

• Ube ne-splenectomy (ukususwa kobende) ngenxa ye-meningococcal meningitis
• Faka i-cochlear
• Yiba nokutheleleka kwe-ENT (Otitis, sinusitis)