The Clinical Manifestations and Prevention of Vertebral Osteomyelitis: a review

Many people may know the vertebral osteomyelitis and it is very common in our daily lives. It is caused by bacteria infection, which is generally appearing in diabetic patients.

When people get the vertebral osteomyelitis, their clinical manifestations are continued high fever, chills, rapid pulse, irritability, blurred consciousness, localized pain, muscle spasm, spinal limited mobility spinous process tenderness and so on. The typical symptoms often appear in 20% patients. Most patients often have acute abdominal pain, nerve root pain, hip joint pain or severe sepsis. In some cases, the severe vertebral abscess could compress and deform the spinal cord and even cause paraplegia. Some cases of vertebral osteomyelitis are subacute or chronic, which are easy to be misdiagnosed as tuberculosis. So, doctors should pay attention in the diagnosis.

After reading the above detailed introduction, I think people may have a general understanding of the clinical manifestations of vertebral osteomyelitis, which are very common to patients. In summer, people are easy to get infected after bone injury and even have the risk to get disease. Thus, it is very important to prevent vertebral osteomyelitis. The following measurements are helpful in dealing with such problems.

Maintain indoor air circulation and pay attention to sanitation. People should often clean skins, which could prevent the disease effectively. In adolescence, people should eat more fruits and vegetables and use less oil emollient to prevent accumulation of sebaceous secretions or duct obstruction. Increase physical activity to enhance physical fitness to prevent the common cold, which is a good way to prevent osteomyelitis. Patience with repeated tonsillitis occurrence should prevent and treat it actively, and they should consider removing by surgery if necessary. Trauma infection includes tissue and bone injury infection, so people should also pay attention to positive prevention in daily life.

Since getting this disease is so terrible and the symptoms are serious, people should notice the skin clean and injury infection in daily to prevent the occurrence of such disease. If people get it unluckily, it is necessary to go to hospitals to consult the advice of doctors and hold the positive attitude to treat it.