How do mumps affect the body?

Answer 1

Mumps typically affect your salivary glands. Usually one of the parotid gland is affected first. Fever is there and the swelling increases in size to achieve the big size. After few days another parotid gland may get affected and again the fever comes back. The story may repeat for the sub-mandibular salivary glands. At times your pancreas may be affected and testicles in the males. Nothing but assurance on the part of physician works.

Answer 2

Mumps affects the salivary glands. Salivary glands swell resulting in pain; pain signals involve the Nervous System. Swelling can put pressure on the ears too. Of course, any illness affects the Immune System. Mumps also interfere with eating, so temporarily, Mumps affect the Digestive System.

Answer 3

Mumps is a disease caused by a virus that usually spreads through saliva and can infect many parts of the body, especially the parotid salivary glands. These glands, which produce saliva for the mouth, are found toward the back of each cheek, in the area between the ear and jaw. In cases of mumps, these glands typically swell and become painful.

The disease has been recognized for several centuries, and medical historians argue over whether the name "mumps" comes from an old word for "lump" or an old word for "mumble."

Mumps was common until the mumps vaccine was licensed in 1967. Before the vaccine, more than 200,000 cases occurred each year in the United States. Since then the number of cases has dropped to fewer than 1,000 a year, and epidemics have become fairly rare. As in the pre-vaccine era, most cases of mumps are still in kids ages 5 to 14, but the proportion of young adults who become infected has been rising slowly over the last two decades. Mumps infections are uncommon in kids younger than 1 year old.

After a case of mumps it is very unusual to have a second bout because one attack of mumps almost always gives lifelong protection against another. However, other infections can also cause swelling in the salivary glands, which might lead a parent to mistakenly think a child has had mumps more than once

Answer 4

the mumps mostly attacks your face.

Answer 5

Parotid gland

Answer 6

Cheeks.