Mumps: symptoms and treatment

Mumps is a mild disease but if not detected and treated early can cause many complications to the brain such as meningitis and more dangerous is the swelling of the testicle, occur in the male market with increased risk must be 20-30%.

The cause

Mumps is caused by a virus triggers so will quickly spread through the respiratory tract, eating and through saliva droplets when patients cough or sneeze. Bạnh appeared in the young, the older large mumps vaccination and those who mature yet have the mumps, the immunity in adults may be but a very low rate. Time spreading disease is from 6 days before discovering the disease completely and came two weeks after the symptoms of the disease.

Mumps symptoms

When infected with the mumps virus, most patients notice discomfort from 1-2 days before the symptoms appear. Patients with high fever (39-400 c) in 3-4 days, the flow of saliva, swelling of the parotid region, most recognizable signs of swollen cheek is to, on the one side and face swelling may spread to the other party or swelling of the two sides at the same time. However, approximately 25% of people infected with the mumps virus without symptoms of the disease, these are objects capable of transmitting the disease that people around did not know. The disease usually resolves after 1 week to 10 days. After that, patients are immune for life.

Mumps in adults is often heavy and there are many more complications in children if not detected early and treated promptly can have complications such as: inflammation of the testicle and epididymis testicle, myocardial infarction, acute lung ovary, pancreatitis; nerve damage; especially mumps in pregnant women during the first 3 months of pregnancy can cause miscarriage or birth deformities, in the last 3 months of pregnancy may be prematurity or stillbirths.

One of the complications and leave the heavy consequences of mumps is causing inflammation of testicular atrophy in males (high rate) or ovarian failure in females (small%). Mumps should be discovered and treated promptly, there diet and reasonable to not cause dangerous complications.

Here are some tips on diet, mode of living for patients with mumps:

-fever, hypothermia for patients with a warm towel.-Wear a mask when in contact with other people in the room to avoid spreading infection to others.-Quarantine the sick about 2 weeks from the time of detection.-Cold water Diets, diets.-Rest, limited mobility (especially when the testicles are swollen painful phenomenon).-Oral hygiene, drink lots of water and gargle with saline or mouthwash to prevent dry mouth and avoid to bacteria have developed favorable environment-Eat soft food, easy-to-swallow, easy to digest but still full of nutrients. Do not eat fish, carp, Sesame glutinous.-Eat a variety of vegetables and fresh fruit, helping to replenish the vitamins and minerals necessary for the body to help boost immunity.-In the case of persistent high fever, no fever or see the occurred complications should take the patient to the hospital.-Keeping the body clean toilet.-Should not arbitrarily use the oral drugs, ointments, patch up swelling to avoid being tainted.=