What are the symptoms of mumps in children?

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Mumps is a common acute respiratory infectious disease caused by mumps virus. It is common in children who are born before school or in school age. It has a certain outbreak. The incidence rate of mumps has exceeded measles in recent years, and the complications of this disease are more serious. So what are the symptoms of mumps? Now let's introduce the symptoms of mumps in detail.

What are the symptoms of mumps in children?

Patients with mumps may have headache, loss of appetite, vomiting and other symptoms 1 to 2 days after infection with the virus. At the same time, parotid gland enlargement will occur. The whole course of disease is about 10 days. If the patients are non suppurative, the prognosis is better. However, the mumps virus may spread to the human nervous tissue, May also damage a variety of human glands, so in the late may also form a lot of complications, especially some patients in puberty may lead to orchitis, prostatitis, female friends may form ovaritis, nephritis and other conditions.

Mumps patients may have swelling and pain on one side and swelling on both sides at the same time. There may be swelling and pain or hypersensitivity in the local tissues of the human body and pain in mouth opening and chewing. The local skin can also have burning, but mild tenderness. It is found that there will be edema around the honeycomb and even change the appearance of the human body.

Mumps patients may have fever, parotid pain, swelling and pain in the early stage of onset, and local skin will also have burning sensation. In the later stage, it may lead to complications such as orchitis and prostatitis, which is also relatively harmful to human body. Patients with mumps must take isolation treatment to prevent transmission to other friends, Diet should also pay attention to health care.

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The above details the symptoms of mumps. I hope it will help my friends. Mumps is an explosive attack, so patients should be treated in isolation. During the treatment, they need proper rest until the swelling of human parotid gland completely subsides. At the same time, they should also pay attention to personal oral hygiene. They can eat liquid food or soft food, But avoid contact with irritating food, patients can eat daylily, mung beans and other food can effectively alleviate the disease, if adult male friends also need to use diethylstilbestrol to prevent orchitis.