Symptoms of 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 mumps? Let's talk about it

Symptoms of mumps?

Unilateral involvement is common, but bilateral involvement is rare. In the early stage of inflammation, the symptoms were mild or not obvious, and the parotid gland area was slightly painful, swollen and tender. There was slight redness, swelling and pain at the orifice of the catheter. With the progress of the disease, fever, chills and unilateral parotid pain and swelling may occur. Local redness, swelling, heat and pain of parotid gland and surface skin. When the lesion entered the suppurative stage, the pus could be seen flowing out from the orifice of the parotid gland.

The most common viral mumps is epidemic mumps. Mumps is an infectious disease, the source of infection is patients and latent infection, the route of transmission is respiratory droplets and close contact. Clinical onset of acute, often fever, headache, poor appetite and other precursor symptoms. After a few hours to 1-2 days, the body temperature can rise to more than 39 ℃ and salivary gland swelling occurs. Parotid gland is most often involved. The swelling usually develops forward, backward and downward with the earlobe as the center. The edge is unclear and mild tenderness. The pain is aggravated when chewing and eating acidic diet. Local skin is hot, tense and shiny but not red. Usually, the opposite side is involved after 2-4 days of parotid gland swelling.

Submandibular gland or sublingual gland can also be affected. Swelling of tongue and neck can be seen when sublingual gland is enlarged, and dysphagia occurs. The orifice of parotid gland may be red and swollen in the early stage, which is helpful for the diagnosis. Atypical cases can always be without parotid gland swelling, but with simple orchitis, meningoencephalitis symptoms, there are only submandibular gland or sublingual gland swelling.

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We selected effective antibiotics, empirically used high-dose penicillin or the first and second generation cephalosporins and other antibiotics against gram-positive cocci, and took pus from parotid gland catheter mouth for bacterial culture and drug sensitivity, and adjusted sensitive antibiotics according to drug sensitivity.