What to do if your child has mumps

What should I do if my child has mumps? Be careful not to let the child eat things that are easy to get angry. It is recommended that the child's father or mother first rinse the inflamed area with clean water, then simply wipe the inflamed area with aloe vera gel or honey, and then take the child to a regular hospital for treatment. Don't treat your child with any folk remedies just to save money, otherwise, the child's condition will worsen and you will pay more!

Mumps in children is an acute respiratory infectious disease caused by the mumps virus. It is distributed worldwide and is classified as a Class C infectious disease in my country. It can occur throughout the year, with a peak in winter and spring. It often occurs in children, either sporadically or in an epidemic manner, and may cause outbreaks in collective children's institutions. The clinical symptoms are acute non-purulent swelling of the salivary glands, often accompanied by meningitis, pancreatitis and orchitis. There is no specific treatment drug, and symptomatic treatment is mainly adopted.

The pathogen is mumps virus, which has a diameter of about 90 to 135 nm. It is an RNA virus and belongs to the paramyxovirus class. This virus has V antigen (viral antigen) and S antigen (soluble antibody). S antibody may appear in the patient's body one week after infection, reach a peak within 2 weeks, and then gradually decline, and can persist for 6 to 12 months. This antibody does not have an immune protective effect. V antibody appears late and can only be detected 2 to 3 weeks after the onset of the disease. It reaches its peak at 4 to 5 weeks and can still be detected 2 years later. This antibody has an immune protective effect on children.

This virus can be killed in ethanol, methanol, and 1% Lysol solution within a few minutes, and can die quickly by ultraviolet radiation. It can survive for a long time under freezing conditions, 9 months at -45℃, 2 months at 4℃, and only 24 hours at 37℃. This virus can also proliferate in the amniotic cavity of chicken embryos and in various tissue cultures (humans and monkeys), and under certain conditions can agglutinate with red blood cells of pigs, chickens, sheep, etc.

There are increasing reports of other viruses causing acute mumps. Such as group A Coxsackie virus (Howlett in 1957), parainfluenza virus (Zollar in 1970), herpes simplex virus (Coffin in 1975), influenza A virus (Stuart in 1977), Japanese encephalitis virus (Duan Shucheng in 1981), etc. In 1995, Du Weibao et al. reported 42 cases of mumps caused by Coxsackievirus.

Don't underestimate those messy folk prescriptions. People often say that quack doctors mislead people! If you get a bad folk prescription, the condition will worsen, which is still a minor problem! So, for the sake of your child's health, as the child's father and mother, don't take chances! Be sure to take your child to the hospital and let the doctor in the hospital tell you what to do if your child has mumps!