Mumps home care

Mumps virus is caused by acute respiratory infections. Throughout the year can incidence, but the winter and spring seasons to see more. The per capita of any age can be a disease, but to 4 ~ 15-year-old preschool and school-age children a higher incidence rate. The infectious disease are relatively strong, often in kindergartens and primary schools in popularity. Currently, the country in some of those areas has already started the live attenuated vaccine against mumps vaccination, playing a protective effect not only reduce the incidence of complications are also reduced.
The virus mainly through saliva droplets penetrated by the human respiratory tract, with 2 to 3 weeks before onset. The majority of children with ear sudden swelling of the lower earliest symptoms, a small number of infants in the parotid gland swelling before 1 to 2 days prior fever, poor appetite, general malaise and other symptoms. First, the general side of the parotid gland swelling, 1 to 2 days after the other side also swelling, or swelling at the same time on both sides. Swelling to earlobe as the center and the surrounding proliferation, swelling parts of the skin surface does not generally redness,some fever, in contravention of hard, no sense of volatility, tenderness. Zhang mouth or pain when chewing intensified. Swelling 2 ~ 3 days reached the peak lasted for four to five days is waning, the whole course of approximately 1 to 2 weeks.
Home care points 1. Children suffering from mumps, with healthy children isolation to avoid infection. Gills should be isolated to date swelling dissipated. In children used utensils, towels, etc. can be boiled disinfected frequently in children's room ventilation, this can make room in the fresh air, but also to achieve disinfection purposes. 2. Bed rest. Children with severe disease due to high fever, mental and physical strength are very poor, bed rest should be to reduce physical exertion and help rehabilitation. The mild in children, parents often do not arouse the attention they pay no attention to the isolation and care, the freedom of its activities, resulting in the spread of diseases. In children have not been properly closed, leading to complications. 3. A reasonable diet.and dry food, because these foods easy to stimulate the secretion of the parotid gland to increase the parotid gland to stimulate the already swelling of the parotid mouth so that the pain intensified, it is necessary to drink more to the sick child, this will be conducive to cooling and toxins discharged. 4. Heating and gills swollen partial care. The fever 39 ° C above the sick child. Use head cooling, warm water liniment, alcohol liniment way cooling, under the guidance of a doctor or medicine and the use of cooling Qingrejiedu Chinese medicine. Early in the parotid gland swelling, cold towels available local cooling, so that local vasoconstriction, thereby reducing the degree of inflammation congestive achieve pain relief purposes. 5. Oral care. Pay attention to oral hygiene, before and after the meal and sleep gargle with salt water desalination or brushing to remove the teeth and oral food debris to prevent secondary bacterial infection.
Note
Mumps itself is not serious, the vast majority of children can be successfully recovered. But some cases deserve attention. First developed complications of encephalitis performance for sustained high fever, headache, vomiting, neck, hard, lethargy or irritability, and even ventilation are thought to. Second, adolescent boys and pill can Yan, Zhaoxing Pill pain, swelling, particularly bilateral halo pill inflammation, they can become the future one of the reasons for male infertility. Third, can be complicated by acute pancreatitis, the performance of high fever and no rebate, nausea and vomiting, left upper abdominal pain, more attention should cause parents, once, should be timely to hospitals for treatment.