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averygoodun42The appendix isn't useless
http://topics.info.com/Meningitis_4026 "Although not as common, the same viruses that cause herpes, chicken pox, shingles, mumps or HIV can also result in viral meningitis. Typically, viral meningitis is most common late in the summer and early in the fall."
I didn't have viral meningitis. I had Streptococcus pneumoniae, probably caused by the walking pneumonia I had the previous year (and never really got over). BUT, I wonder if the shingles I had four years prior to the meningitis broke down some protective barrier, allowing the lingering bacteria into my spinal fluid? *shrugs*
http://cid.oxfordjournals.org/content/37/11/1527.full (parking here for future reading; not lay-person friendly)
Also something to be looked into a bit further is Vitamin D receptors (i.e. the calcitriol receptor), and how they regulate the body's vitamin D use/absorption.
http://topics.info.com/Meningitis_4026 "Although not as common, the same viruses that cause herpes, chicken pox, shingles, mumps or HIV can also result in viral meningitis. Typically, viral meningitis is most common late in the summer and early in the fall."
I didn't have viral meningitis. I had Streptococcus pneumoniae, probably caused by the walking pneumonia I had the previous year (and never really got over). BUT, I wonder if the shingles I had four years prior to the meningitis broke down some protective barrier, allowing the lingering bacteria into my spinal fluid? *shrugs*
http://cid.oxfordjournals.org/content/37/11/1527.full (parking here for future reading; not lay-person friendly)
Also something to be looked into a bit further is Vitamin D receptors (i.e. the calcitriol receptor), and how they regulate the body's vitamin D use/absorption.
