What is the best treatment for mumps?
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Baby suddenly got mumps, many parents do not know how to do, do not know how to treat mumps. What is mumps? What is the fastest way to treat mumps? What is the general treatment of mumps? Let's have a look.
What is the best treatment for mumps?
The incubation period of mumps is 14-21 days. After mumps virus invades the body, at the beginning of the disease, children often have fever, anorexia, fatigue and other symptoms; One to two days later, the parotid gland will be enlarged. At the beginning, one side may be enlarged first, then the other side may be enlarged, or both sides may be enlarged at the same time. The swelling of parotid gland is centered on the earlobe, and diffused around the front, back and bottom. The boundary is unclear and the pain is gradually aggravated, especially when eating with mouth open, chewing and eating acidic food. The orifice of parotid gland is red and swollen. If the parotid gland is seriously swollen, the child's face appears bulging, and in a few days he becomes a "little fat man".
Simple mumps is not a serious disease, parents should pay special attention to and prevent complications, such as orchitis, ovaritis, pancreatitis, especially complicated with encephalitis. Boys can be complicated with testicular swelling and pain, girls lower abdominal pain, which is a dangerous sign of complications. Especially when children with fever, headache, strong neck, vomiting, sleepiness and other symptoms, should consider whether combined with encephalitis.
The swelling part of parotid gland can be applied with indigo naturalis, egg white or Zijin Ding, once a day. Patients with obvious encephalitis symptoms were treated as viral encephalitis. If necessary, children with severe meningoencephalitis, orchitis or myocarditis can be treated with medium dose of glucocorticoid for 3-7 days. Pancreatitis should be fasting, gastrointestinal decompression, rehydration, suspected bacterial infection can be added antibiotics.
matters needing attention
In the early stage of acute suppurative parotitis, drug therapy was the main treatment; At the same time, the method of stimulating secretion was used to keep saliva secretion smooth. If the course of disease is more than one week and the patient enters the suppurative stage, incision and drainage operation should be performed. There is no specific treatment for viral mumps, so the traditional Chinese medicine can be used. If there is concurrent bacterial infection, antibiotics can be used. Because mumps can cause body fever, in fever more than 39 degrees, you can choose indomethacin suppository, according to the severity of your condition and depending on each time 1 or half. Or choose sipda, one bag at a time.
