Symptoms of viral mumps

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Parotid gland is the largest gland in salivary gland, located in the bilateral cheek near the earlobe, parotid gland enlargement with the earlobe as the center, can be one side or two sides. The cause of the disease is infection, immunity, obstruction and inflammation. Symptoms of viral mumps? Next, I'd like to share my views with you.

Symptoms of viral mumps

The main symptom of children suffering from mumps is swelling under the ear, and there will be pain performance. Some children will have no appetite, headache, fever, vomiting and other systemic uncomfortable symptoms two days before the swelling of mumps, and then they will have pain symptoms under one ear or both ears, and then they will swell up.

There are different types of mumps, including suppurative mumps and viral mumps. If it is suppurative mumps, it is generally caused by Staphylococcus infection. The main symptoms are local pain, redness and swelling of the parotid gland. If it is viral mumps, it is easy to appear in childhood and adolescence, and may appear alone, There may also be both sides at the same time, white blood cells will appear to reduce the phenomenon, will not appear suppurative tendency.

When children have mumps in the early stage, they can use a cold towel for local cold compress to make the blood vessels constrict, which can relieve the inflammatory hyperemia and relieve the pain. Some tea or vinegar can be used to compress the affected area, which can let the drugs enter the lesion and prevent the pain caused by dryness, Parents should also let their children often gargle with salt water to maintain oral hygiene.

matters needing attention

After the children have mumps, in addition to the need for active treatment, the correct diet and correct care is also very important, usually light diet should be given priority to, you can drink more juice, vegetable juice, rice soup, you can also drink soy milk, milk, Plumeria soup, can make the disease recover faster.