Symptoms of parotid duct injury

summary

Mumps is a common disease among children and adolescents in No.1 Middle School in the city. Especially in this season, mumps is very severe and spreads very fast. Although mumps is not a refractory disease, but suffering ah.

Symptoms of parotid duct injury

Symptom 1: fever, moderate increase in body temperature, chills, loss of appetite, general discomfort, headache, myalgia, etc.

Symptom 2: parotid gland swelling and pain (bilateral parotid gland swelling accounts for about 75%). Parotid gland enlargement is often the first sign of the disease, lasting for 7-10 days. Usually one side swells first for 2-3 days, and the opposite side also swells. Sometimes the swelling is only unilateral, or parotid gland enlargement with submandibular gland enlargement, or even only submandibular gland enlargement without parotid gland enlargement.

Symptom 3: pain or distension after zygomatic arch (the location of parotid gland). The swelling of parotid gland is the most obvious in 1-3 days after onset, especially when eating acid food. After 2 weeks, the swelling disappeared completely. In the early 3-5 days of onset, there may be fever, fatigue, do not want to eat and other systemic symptoms.

matters needing attention

Fever, chills, headache, sore throat, poor appetite, nausea, vomiting, general pain, parotid gland swelling and pain after several hours, gradually obvious, body temperature can reach more than 39 ℃, adult patients are generally more serious.