Mumps more common in children and usually children aged between two to 12 years, and if attacked in adults usually affects the prostate, pancreas, breast, testicular and several other organs, weakness in the thyroid gland is at greater risk exposed to mumps.
Below is information related to mumps
• The process of transmission of mumps
Mumps is viral disease transmitted through and can be transmitted through direct contact, splashing saliva, vomit material, possibly with the urine. The virus can be found in the urine from the first day until the fourteenth day after the enlargement of the gland.
Mumps is rarely found in children aged less than 2 years, it is because generally they still have or protected by anti-bodies that are still strong. Someone who never had mumps, then he will have lifetime immunity.
• some of the Signs and Symptoms of Mumps
Not all people infected by the virus paramyxovirus have complaints, even about 30-40% of patients showed no signs of illness. However, they are similar to other patients who have complaints, which can be a source of transmission of the disease.
Mumps incubation of the disease process occurs between 12 to 24 and generally occurs between 17 to 18 days. And the following are signs or symptoms of mumps are more fully
1. In the early (1-2 days) Mumps sufferers will experience symptoms such as fever with a temperature between 38.5 - 40 degrees Celsius, headache, muscle aches, loss of appetite, jaw pain when chewing the back and sometimes accompanied by stiff stiff jaw or mouth.
2. Then it will happen swollen glands under the ears (parotid) that begins with swelling of one side of the gland and then the two have swollen glands.
3. The swelling will usually occur for 3 days and then gradually deflated.
4. Sometimes swelling of the glands under the jaw (submandibular) and glands under the tongue (sublingual). In adult men will be swelling testicles (testes) is caused because it spread through the bloodstream.
• The diagnosis of mumps disease (mumps or parotitis)
Further examination should be done when it is clearly visible epidemika parotitis infection on physical examination, including details of contact with mumps disease (mumps or parotitis) 2-3 weeks previously. In addition it is to act laboratory results of urine examination (urine) and blood.
• Laboratory examination
Besides leukopenia with relative limfosiotsis, found also an increase in serum amylase levels which peaked after one week and then became normal again in two weeks.
If the patient did not show swelling of glands under the ears, but other signs and symptoms of mumps disease that leads to doubt the diagnosis. Physicians will give orders to do further tests such as blood serum. At least as there are 3 test serum (serologic) to prove the specific mumps antibodies: antibodies, complement fixation (CF), Hemagglutination inhibitor antibodies (HI), virus neutralizing antibodies (NT)
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