Mumps symptoms?

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The disease of parotitis is a serious disease, which is generally caused by inflammation of parotid gland. The main symptoms are swelling and pain of face, which is also a kind of disease that makes patients feel special pain and has a serious impact on their daily life and health? Let's talk about it

Mumps symptoms?

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.

Parotid gland enlargement, usually with earlobe as the center, develops forward, backward and downward, pear shaped, with unclear edge; 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.

matters needing attention

During the treatment, pay attention to their diet and life conditioning, diet should be balanced, pay attention to nutrition and light, life should be regular, drink more water. Keeping oral hygiene is an important link to prevent the disease. Dehydration often occurs in some patients with weak constitution, long-term bedridden, high fever or fasting. It is more important to strengthen oral care (such as brushing teeth carefully, mouthwashing with chlorhexidine solution, etc.), maintain body fluid balance, and strengthen nutrition and anti infection treatment.