Treatment of mumps

Mumps is an acute respiratory infectious disease. If not treated properly, it may cause various symptoms such as meningitis, pancreatitis, mastitis, etc. It is common in children and adolescents and is a disease caused by the mumps virus. If you have mumps, you may experience swelling on one cheek or under both earlobes, and you may feel pain and discomfort in your cheeks when eating or chewing food. Treatment of mumps requires caution.

The symptoms of mumps are not obvious when it first occurs. The patient may have fever, fatigue, and unwillingness to eat. The symptoms are not very obvious and therefore not easy to detect. If we experience these phenomena and they last for a long time, we must not be careless and must go to the hospital for relevant examinations as soon as possible to avoid certain diseases causing harm to us.
General treatment <br> In the early stage of acute suppurative parotitis, drug treatment is the main treatment; at the same time, the method of stimulating secretion is used to keep saliva secretion unobstructed. If the disease lasts for more than a week and enters the suppurative stage, an incision and drainage operation should be performed.
There is no specific treatment for viral mumps. It can be treated with the aforementioned Chinese medicine. If there is a concurrent bacterial infection, antibiotics can be used. Since mumps can cause fever, when the fever is above 39 degrees, you can choose indomethacin suppositories, one or half a suppository each time, depending on the severity of your condition. Or you can choose Sepuda, one bag at a time.
Folk remedy treatment <br> Use a piece of fresh and juicy cactus, remove the thorns, mash it into a paste, mix it with egg white, and apply it to the affected area. Change it once a day and use it for 2-3 days to cure. This is a method commonly used in rural areas to treat mumps, and it is effective. Cactus has a light taste and cold nature, and can play the role of clearing away heat and detoxifying, reducing swelling and relieving pain.
Scramble eggs with 5 grams of snake skin (longyi) without adding salt, eat once a day for 3 consecutive days.
Traditional Chinese Medicine Treatment <br> Traditional Chinese medicine that clears away heat and toxic substances, dissipates lumps and relieves swelling, such as decoction of Radix Isatidis, Herba Prunellae, and Herba Taraxaci.
Wash an appropriate amount of Purslane, drain the water, mash it and apply it to the affected area. Change once a day.
30 grams of tofu, 6 grams of mung beans, and 50 grams of rock sugar, add water and decoct, 1 dose per day for 3 consecutive days.
Different symptoms of mumps require different targeted treatments. There are two types of mumps: epidemic and acute suppurative. We must pay attention to prevention in our daily lives. We must pay attention to ventilation in the room. If it is a child, we must pay attention to preventive injections when he is one and a half years old. We must pay attention to oral hygiene on a daily basis and rinse our mouths with warm salt water regularly.

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