Meningitis symptoms 'harder to detect in babies'
Doctors say the symptoms are harder to identify but include a fever while the hands and feet are cold, high pitched moaning or whimpering, blank staring, inactivity and also hard to wake up. Other symptoms include:
- Poor feeding
- Neck retraction with arching of the back
- Pale and blotchy complexion
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