Specific symptoms of mumps?

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The emergence of mumps is mainly caused by mumps virus. It belongs to a respiratory disease, which is infectious to a certain extent. Most of the patients with this disease are children, which will have a certain impact on the growth of children. So, what are the symptoms of mumps? Now let's talk about it.

Specific symptoms of mumps?

The incubation period of mumps was 8-30 days, with an average of 18 days. Most of the patients had acute onset without prodromal symptoms. There are fever, chills, headache, sore throat, poor appetite, nausea, vomiting, systemic pain, parotid gland swelling and pain for several hours, gradually obvious, body temperature can reach more than 39 ℃, adult patients are generally more serious.

The specific symptoms of parotitis: firstly, the parotid gland is swollen, which is usually centered on the earlobe and develops forward, backward and downward, pear shaped and unclear; Local skin is tense, shiny but not red, tough and elastic to touch, with slight tenderness; It usually lasts for 7-10 days. Usually one side is swollen for 2-3 days, and the other side is also swollen with pain and heat. The pain was aggravated during mouth opening and chewing. The swelling and pain subsided after about a week. When parotid gland is enlarged, most of them have fever for 3-5 days. After parotid gland enlargement, must strictly isolate. The isolation could not be released until 3 days after the parotid gland enlargement disappeared completely.

In addition to the local manifestations of mumps, we should also pay attention to the occurrence of complications of mumps, such as mumps, encephalitis, orchitis, pancreatitis and viral myocarditis. In the process of children's illness, we should pay attention to the occurrence of these complications, such as mumps encephalitis, children will continue to have high fever, intracranial pressure, vomiting, headache.

matters needing attention

We should avoid too much activity in the crowd at ordinary times. It is easy to get mumps. In fact, the prevention of this disease is very good. As long as we pay a little attention, we can stay away from mumps.