Mumps is a common disease caused by viruses, develops especially in the spring and summer season. It is less contagious than chickenpox or measles. The children aged 5 to 10 years old likely to catch mumps the most. It can lead to serious complications for patients such as encephalitis, meningitis and the most dangerous one is male fertility.
The cause of mumps is a paramyxovirus virus transmitted through inhalation and ingestion, via saliva when patients speak, cough or sneeze. The mumps virus can exist in the urine about 2-3 weeks.
Most patients find uncomfortable 1-2 days before symptoms appear .Patients get a high fever in 3-4 days, suffer from salivary running and cheek swelling causing pain when swallowing saliva. After that, patients have a dry mouth because salivary glands have stopped working. The disease usually resolves after 1 week to 10 days. After exposing to the mumps virus about 14-24 days, patients feel tired, fever, sore throat, sometimes cold. Then, the parotid gland gradually becomes swollen in about 3 days and reduces swelling in one week.
There are some common preventative ways for mumps:
● Children of 12 months or older can be vaccinated mumps.
● People who expose to mumps patients (have not been vaccinated against mumps before) need to be vaccinated against mumps immediately to protect themselves from catching this disease.
● People with mumps should wear a mask in contact with others to prevent the transmission of infection to others.
● Maintain a reasonable regime of activities and diet to have a good health, a good resistance against disease-causing bacteria.
Over 50% of patients with mumps have the leukocytosis phenomenon in the cerebrospinal fluid. Some patients have clearly expressed meningitis with symptoms of headaches, vomiting ... Orchitis is a relatively common complication ,not infertility as many people usually worry about . Other rare complications include arthritis, thyroiditis, jaw arthritis, glomerulonephritis, myocarditis, thrombocytopenia, cerebellar ataxia, acute pancreatitis, inflammation of the ovaries and hearing loss.
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