Mumps Vaccine Mumps Cure

Mumps vaccine and mumps cure

        The pathogen often develops in the salivary glands, but can also affect other glands such as mammary glands and sex glands (ovaries or testes). One can also found the virus in the pancreas and rarely in the nervous system, in tissues of the brain (the meninges). The key is to know about mumps to best protect your children. One catches mumps only once in his life, as in case of chickenpox or measles. Detected early and well treated, the disease is not dangerous, but it spreads very easily from one patient to another. Also in contrast to chickenpox and measles, mumps,if is not well treated or if you are not careful it can cause some complications with serious and irreversible consequences such as infertility in men or deafness, more often in women. This disease therefore requires special attention from the parents or the patient himself.

How is the disease

        The disease is manifested by a more or less weak fever followed by a sensation of pain in one ear (lower rear). The patient will feel some soreness in muscle and feel tired. The second day after the first signs can be observed a bulge in the back of the ear and swelling may also affect the second ear. The patient can then have halucinations.

Mumps contagion

        At the age of 1 year your child may have contracted the disease. The virus spreads quickly by air or by physical contact through saliva, and the drops of saliva (by talking or coughing). Mumps can also be transmitted from mother to fetus (rare).