What to do when children have mumps?

The transition between spring and summer is the time when young children are most susceptible to mumps. Without early detection and timely treatment will leave many complications, the most severe is infertility.

What is mumps?

Mumps is also known as parotid gingivitis, epidemiologic or parotid gland inflammation caused by mumps virus, which is an acute infectious disease.

The disease is worldwide and only occurs in humans. The disease is more common in young children and adolescents, adults can also suffer but the rate is lower.

The disease is transmitted by respiratory and food-borne viruses, through saliva when the patient talks, coughs or sneezes.

Children with mumps, the lower jaw of the jaw will swell.

Signs to identify children with mumps

• After infection with the mumps virus, the child will experience an incubation period of 18 to 25 days.
• 2 days before the onset of illness and 9 days after inflammation of the parotid gland is the time to be able to transmit the disease.
• Next, enter the stage of illness with symptoms: fever 38-38.5 degrees C, headache, vomiting, cough or runny nose, abdominal pain, loss of appetite . Maybe before salivary gland swelling .
• After that, the parotid gland begins to swell to 1 or 2 sides, within 3 days and then gradually decreases.The swollen area may spread to the cheeks, lower jaw, even spread to the chest causing edema of the sternum.
• Headaches will become more intense after swollen glands in the ears.

How to treat mumps

When children have mumps, parents need to be aware of the following:

• Do not allow children to exercise much.
• No abstinence, need for children to eat well, usually children with mumps are very difficult to eat, need to choose soft food, easy to swallow, many nutrients to increase resistance to the body.
• If the child is feverish or too painful, it is possible to give the child a fever-reducing medicine, give paracetamol 30mg / kg body weight / day, 3 times.
• For children to drink plenty of water, children can drink soft drinks.
• Absolutely avoid the wind.
• Avoid self-applying or applying, spraying folk remedies in the gill line to prevent poisoning.
• Enhance dental-oral-throat hygiene: Gargle with old oxygenated water, salt water.In the place where there are leaves, fish lettuce, lemon basil can be used 2-3 times and thoroughly boiled, give some salt, filter for mouth contact many times daily.If children show signs of meningitis-meningitis, pancreatitis . need to go to hospital.
• Apply heat to the corner of the jaw.

Mumps is not difficult to cure, if treated promptly, it will quickly heal and leave no dangerous complications.