Eliana Shaw-Lothian, a psychology student from Bromley, fell critically ill with meningitis B shortly after starting at university. She experienced headache, dizziness, cold hands and feet, stiff neck and joints, vomiting, delirium, and required an induced coma and three days in hospital. Rapid intervention by flatmates and communication with her parents enabled quick hospital admission. Meningitis B is uncommon but potentially deadly, and university students face higher risk due to close living conditions. Many people carry the bacteria harmlessly in the nose and throat, and congregation on campuses increases transmission risk.
Meningitis B isn't very common but it can be deadly and university students are one of the groups most at risk. Many of us within the general population will be carrying the bacteria that can cause meningitis and we'll be carrying it harmlessly at the back of our nose and throats. It's about one in 10 of the population, but actually once you get students coming together from all over the country congregating in campuses, living together in halls of
I woke up on a Friday morning with a really bad headache and feeling a bit dizzy, I didn't think much of it because it's quite a generic symptom, and then that evening I got really cold hands and feet and a stiff neck and stiff joints.
Luckily my flatmates had heard my phone ringing which is why they came into my room to check on me, because they could pick up the phone and talk to my parents, I think that's why it was so quick and I was admitted into hospital so quickly.
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