How can mumps be transmitted?

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Mumps is short for mumps, commonly known as mumps. It is popular in all seasons, especially in winter and spring. It is a common respiratory infectious disease in children and adolescents. It is an acute, systemic infection caused by mumps virus, characterized by parotid swelling and pain, and sometimes involving other salivary glands. How can mumps be transmitted? Let's talk about it

How can mumps be transmitted?

Mumps is due to children infected with mumps virus, when they produce mumps virus antibody to resist mumps disease, it will produce swollen face, fever, fatigue, anorexia symptoms. Since it's a viral disease, it's infectious like influenza. When a school or kindergarten as long as there are children infected with mumps, may be in a few days, there will be multiple children infected. So mumps is contagious.

If you have been infected with mumps for adults or children, mumps will not be infectious. Because adults and children who have been infected with mumps virus already have antibodies to mumps virus in their bodies, when mumps virus attacks again, the antibodies will quickly start the body's immune system to attack the virus, so as to avoid the re infection of mumps virus.

The treatment of mumps should start with relieving pain and fever, and intake enough liquid to prevent dehydration caused by fever and anorexia. If the patient can't swallow, infusion can be used instead of therapy. It is recommended to rest in bed during fever. Ice bag or heat pad can help relieve parotid pain. For patients with orchitis, doctors prescribe hormone drugs to reduce inflammation.

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Patients should drink more boiled water to keep their mouth clean, or gargle with compound borax solution. External application of traditional Chinese medicine can be used for swelling parts. Take 15g indigo naturalis or 15g Ruyi Jinhuang powder, which is a proprietary Chinese medicine, and mix with water. After external application, local pain can be reduced and swelling can be reduced. At the same time can also take Banlangen Granules.