Initial symptoms of mumps

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Mumps is an infectious disease. It itself is not terrible, but some of its complications will cause great damage to the body, especially for boys, if mumps is not treated in time, it may lead to the occurrence of orchitis, serious cases will cause infertility. In addition, its complications include meningitis, meningoencephalitis, multiple neuritis, deafness, ovaritis, pancreatitis, etc. Therefore, the early diagnosis and treatment of mumps is very important. Let's take a look at the early symptoms of mumps.

Initial symptoms of mumps

For most people, enlargement of the lower part of the ear is the earliest manifestation. Some of them swell on one side first, and then swell on the other side a few days later. Some of them swell on both sides together. The swelling range includes the whole earlobe periphery, from the front to the back of the earlobe and then down gradually, with pain.

Some people have other symptoms first, such as fever, headache and sore throat, which are often mistaken for colds. Some people have anorexia, nausea, vomiting, body pain and other symptoms. Some of these symptoms only lasted for a few hours, some lasted for a few days, and then began to appear parotid gland enlargement.

When the parotid gland enlargement, the basic can be determined to be mumps. But also related examination such as hemogram analysis, neutralizing antibody test to confirm. After that, we need active treatment, including corresponding symptomatic treatment and antiviral treatment. At the same time, we need to pay attention to whether there are complications.

matters needing attention

Mumps is a viral infection, after a week to 10 days, most children can naturally return to normal. It's important to have enough rest during this period. Add water and digestible nutrients, should not give acid food, so as not to cause local parotid pain.