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?

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.

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.

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.

matters needing attention

Typical patients with parotitis have parotid gland enlargement, which is easy to find. But for those atypical patients with parotid gland enlargement, special attention should be paid to early diagnosis to avoid complications.