[GatorGirl]

Not necessarily. My daughter had not had contact with anyone who had meningitis. Of course, she was reported to the health department for monitoring. Her pediatrician took to calling her the "World Famous Baby". She recovered beautifully, except that her teeth were a little damaged from the week of heavy-duty antibiotics. We caught it early.

Doctors don't mess around with infants this young who present with a high fever and irritability. As an earlier poster pointed out, they can't complain of the classic symptoms of stiff neck, light sensitivity, headache.

[codercpc]

God Bless your daughter!!!

Thanks for the info.

[sarasmom]

Trust your doctors diagnosis completely do you?
You believe he saved your childs life, even at the expense of her teeth...after all, thats what all the medical charts say, or do they?
Weird that in Florida I was "diagnosed" with meningitis supposedly, and all I can remember the nurses saying was encephalitis, and about the same time they came out with some new disease that was killing horses.
I have no idea what I actually had.It was bad, and I was very ill for a long time.
Goodness knows I never will, unless I privately pay for extensive blood tests, if I could ever find a doctor willing to order them just to satisfy my lingering curiosity.