How many days will it take to get rid of mumps?

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The article was professionally consulted with Specialist Doctor II Huynh Thi Diem Thuy - Vaccine Consultant - Pediatrics - Neonatology Department, Vinmec Central Park International General Hospital.
Mumps is a common infectious disease, especially in children. The disease causes many uncomfortable symptoms, fatigue, greatly affects the work, life and health of patients.

1. How many days will mumps be cured?

Mumps causes many unpleasant symptoms, the virus infects the exocrine and nervous glands, and also damages the genital organs in infected people.
In general, mumps is a benign disease and can clear up on its own in about 10 days if there are no complications. The disease needs to go through the following stages, after which the body forms antibodies against the disease permanently and the disease will be cured.

1.1 Initiation phase

After an incubation period of 18-21 days, the onset of the disease caused the child to have a fever of 38-39 degrees Celsius, body aches, headaches, and poor sleep.

1.2 Full-blown stage

Inflammation of the parotid salivary glands is the most common typical symptom in children with mumps, accounting for 70% of clearly localized forms.
To the full stage from 24-48 hours after fever, the patient will develop inflammation of the parotid gland. At first, there is usually swelling on one side of the chin below the ear, and after 1-2 days, the swelling continues to the other side. Most children usually have swelling on both sides, rarely only one side.
The two sides of inflammation are often asymmetrical, the cheek skin is swollen, tight, glossy, not concave, hot to the touch, not red, painful, saliva is little and viscous.
3 The typical pain sites of mumps salivary gland inflammation are the temporomandibular angle, the mandibular angle, and the mastoid point.

1.3 Remission stage

Patients usually have no fever after 3-4 days of illness, parotid salivary glands also stop swelling after 8-10 days, swollen lymph nodes will last a little longer than glands. The majority of children with the disease will recover on their own within 10 days if treated, well abstained and without complications. Although the salivary gland is swollen, it is not purulent, unless it is combined with a bacterial superinfection, it is never atrophied.
If a patient with mumps has complications such as: encephalitis, acute pancreatitis, meningitis, myocarditis, leukopenia... it will take longer and be more dangerous.

2. Can taking medicine shorten the treatment time for mumps?

Currently, there is no drug that can specifically treat patients with mumps, the use of drugs can only alleviate symptoms, strengthen the body's resistance to fight the disease.
Therefore, the patient needs to go to the medical agency to check the disease status as well as prevent complications, combined with a reasonable rest regimen, limit exercise a lot, eat enough with soft foods, many nutrients, easy to swallow to increase resistance.

If the patient has a high fever or too much pain, fever reducers can be used; pain relievers prescribed by your doctor. If a man has mumps, the baby should lie flat, wear underwear so that the scrotum is raised. A cold pack can be applied to the scrotum to relieve pain.
Mumps is usually caused by 2 viruses and bacteria. For cases of mumps caused by a virus, it is not necessary to go to the hospital for treatment if there are no severe symptoms, the disease will clear up on its own within 5-7 days.
For complicated cases of mumps, patients with high fever, vomiting, headache, swollen genitals must go to the hospital for treatment as soon as possible. Otherwise, it can lead to infertility complications due to testicular atrophy.
Patients with mumps need to drink a lot of water because high fever causes dehydration, loss of electrolytes in the body, it is best to drink oresol solution. In addition, it is necessary to rest in bed, avoid contact with people to avoid the risk of infection.
Folk have circulated some improper treatment for mumps, which should be avoided, not followed, such as:
Use ink or smear pot to draw on the swollen area because the disease is not caused by "evil ghosts" but by viruses It is very dangerous to apply leaves, lime or plaster to the swollen area. This method is not only ineffective but also causes heat, burns the swollen area and causes an infection in the parotid gland, causing more severe inflammation.

3. Mumps can be easily prevented

Everyone can prevent mumps easily by getting the mumps vaccine. For children, the mumps vaccine should be given at 12 months of age or when the child is about to go to kindergarten, kindergarten or primary school. The mumps vaccine usually consists of two doses, the first dose at 12 months and the repeat dose at 4-6 years of age. Adults or pregnant women who are planning to become pregnant can also prevent mumps.

However, in reality, vaccination can only prevent you from getting sick about 80% of cases of viral infections. Therefore, preventing the disease from spreading is very important even in people who have been vaccinated against the disease.
Should isolate sick people at home, do not contact people around, when in contact, must wear a mask. The patient's isolation time is about 10 days from the time of swelling of the parotid gland.
At the same time regularly wash hands with soap, clean personal hygiene every day.
Clean the respiratory tract by gargling with saline solution or antiseptic solutions.
Limit contact with sick or suspected sick people.
Limit going to crowded places, especially during an epidemic.
Strengthen the body's resistance, eat full of nutrients, exercise and rest properly.

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