Mumps

Mumps's disease overview

What is What is mumps? In addition, the disease can also cause genital gland inflammation, meningitis, pancreatitis and some other complications if not treated promptly. Children who are subject to mumps are frequently infected with age (less than 1 year of age) rarely, the cause may still have good antibodies from the mother.

Causes of Mumps's disease

Mumps caused by mumps virus belongs to the Paramyxovirus group. Patients often have the highest ability to infect two days before symptoms appear or six days after the symptoms are over.

Symptoms of Mumps's disease

Most mumps often onset with early symptoms of fever (above 39 ° C) then symptoms of mumps will be characterized by ear salivary gland inflammation with tables. The following:

Children have pain in the outer ear canal, spreading around.

After 1-2 days, the ear gland will gradually swell, spread to the front of the ear and spread to the jaw (seeing the groove under the jaw), the skin of the swollen area is not hot red. Symptoms of swelling are usually on both sides of the ear.

At this time, children will feel pain when swallowing, speaking, chewing or drinking acidic water

Systemic symptoms can be: fever, fatigue, headache, osteoarthritis pain, poor sleep

After 1 week, the gear gland is painful and gradually smaller, the fever and the systemic symptoms are also relieved.

Mumps can also cause some complications in other agencies such as:

Testicular inflammation: Initially, patients with pain in the testes then the testes are swollen 3-4 times more than normal, aches and pains, red scrotum, sometimes swelling . Often manifesting swelling only on one side of the testes but may also swell on both sides. Symptoms of testicular swelling lasting longer than 2 weeks to stop swelling and 2 months to evaluate the testicular atrophy.

Meningitis: high fever, headache, vomiting, consciousness disorders, convulsions, stiff neck.

Acute pancreatitis: complications in adults more and often hidden. Some symptoms may be encountered are patients with fever, epigastric pain with vomiting, bloating or lax, anorexia ...

Transmission route of Mumps's diseaseMumps

Which is the mumps that is transmitted?

The respiratory tract is mainly due to the dust in the breath of the patient transmitted to healthy people through coughing, sneezing, spitting, communicating. After that, the inhaled good person will exist the virus that attaches to the nasal mucosa, conjunctiva and penetrates into the organs through the blood sugar.

People at risk for Mumps's disease

The most common mumps are children from 3 years and older, the young age starting to go to kindergarten and increase the risk of getting from the community.

In it, the most common is the age of 5-9 years old and youth.

Diseases in men more than women

People with weak immune systems

Prevention of Mumps's disease

Some measures to proactively prevent mumps are recommended including:

Wash your hands regularly with soap, ensure hygiene of houses, classrooms, personal hygiene clean, especially respiratory tract, regularly wear masks to avoid infections Causes mumps

vaccine to prevent mumps, this is a very important factor for puberty children, teenagers and adults without immunity

Patients need to be isolated for about 10 days to avoid spreading to others

The suspected disease needs to be immediately medical facility for examination, advice and timely treatment, especially in cases of difficulty swallowing, shortness of breath, testicular inflammation

Diagnostic measures for Mumps's disease

Diagnosis of mumps based on clinical symptoms and tests needed for a definite diagnosis:

Clinical: typical symptoms are patients with fever, fatigue, especially swelling of one or more salivary glands, can be accompanied by testicular inflammation, meningitis or pancreatitis.

In terms of testing: In general, the clinical symptom of mumps is quite typical, so the test is only used when necessary such as: Elisa immunity (Elisa) to detect resistance The mumps in the blood or indirect fluorescent immunity (IFA) detect antigens, specific antibodies.

Mumps's disease treatments

Currently, mumps have no specific treatment, so the current principle of treatment is mostly symptomatic treatment and complications:

Maximum maximum movement, sedation and good care of patients, especially in the period of full development

Treatment of anti -inflammatory testicular, ovarian, pancreatitis, meningitis

Only use antibiotics when there is superinfection of bacteria as directed

with heavy bodies that can be used in combination immunoglin

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