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Mumps
Mumps is a contagious disease caused by the mumps virus that causes fever, tiredness, headaches and the swelling of various parts of the body. All questions concerning symptoms, causes, transmission, diagnosis, treatments and prevention can be found here.
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What are facts about the mumps?
It can cause inflammation of pancreas- pancreatitis, and orchitis leading to sterlity
mumps when contracted in childhood is less serious compared to when you contract it in adulthood. mumps in adulthood particularly among males can also cause swelling of the testicles or ORCHITIS. orchitis has the potential of making one sterile.
Is the word mumps singular or plural?
Mumps is plural. But it is both singular and plural is construction.
Double Mumps is the name given when the viral infection causes swelling on both sides of the throat.
Why do people wear a cloth around their head when they have the mumps?
People would wear a cloth around their head when they had the mumps because it was used to hold a ginger root salve on the swollen areas. Ginger is a well-known herbal remedy for mumps. To apply the ginger, a whole peeled root of fresh ginger would be ground into a fine pulp and the pulp would be used as a salve over the swollen areas. The salve tends to be very watery, so it would be spread on a clean bandage or clean piece of cloth and held in place by tying a bandana or a longer piece of cloth around the head.
What is the causative of the mumps?
The mumps virus is an enveloped single-stranded, linear negative-sense RNA virus of the Rubulavirus genus and Paramyxovirus family. Humans are the only natural host for the virus. Mumps is spread from person to person through contact with respiratory secretions, such as saliva from an infected person. When an infected person coughs or sneezes, the droplets aerosolize and can enter the eyes, nose, or mouth of another person.
Well it is an area not much researched, which in turn tells us, its not much of an issue. Right? As far as we know, some dogs have been reported to show similar symptoms when in a house hold of a child who has the mumps. No other types of pets have ever shown problems that anyone has seen sever enough to mention. However these pooches that did show symptoms healed on their own without any medication within five to ten days, so you should not have anything to worry about. =D
What are similar diseases of Mumps?
Yes, it is. It is a viral infection spread by droplets. It shows as a classic gopher-like swelling of the cheeks (Parotitis). Humans are the exclusive natural host. Fever, discomfort, malaise are signs and symptoms. 40% are subclinical with no swelling of the glands. Swelling of other organs can occur. 20-30% of young adult males show swelling of the testis on one side. Permanent sterility in males does not occur as once thought.
An inflammation of what structure is called mumps?
Mumps is, among other symptoms, inflammation of the parotid glands. These salivary glands are found on either cheek.
Based on historical accounts, an American pathologist by the name of Ernest William Goodpasture was the one who discovered mumps virus in 1934.
Claude D. Johnson and Ernest W. Goodpasture conducted an investigation into the etiology of Mumps and concluded that a virus in saliva caused mumps.
What can and cant you eat when you have mumps?
I have not eaten anything properly yet, I have tried but everything hurts to eat the only thing u got along with was yogurt.
What part of the world was mumps first discovered?
Hippocrates an ancient Greek physician described an outbreak of mumps in the 5th century B.C..
So it can be easily spread by direct contact with saliva, like kissing of an infected person and a healthy person, or can also be spread through sharing objects contaminated with infected saliva (e.g. cups, utensils). This virus can also be spread when by breathing in droplets coming from infected persons cough or sneeze fall on a healthy person.
What is the scientific name for the mumps?
Epidemic parotitis because it affects the parotid glands and is contagious and caused epidemics in history.
The scientific name for mumps is Epidemic parotitis. The virus can cause pain, fever and swelling in the salivary glands.
What is the treatment if one person becomes infected with the mumps?
MUMPS is a viral condition.
It is only treated symptomatically - so reduce the body's pain response with an age appropriate and dose recommended pain relieving agent.
Offer cooling, soft foods if the throat is painful, which it can be.
Preventing the spread of it is best done prior to the disease showing up, so all you can do once it has manifested is to reduce the chance of other people getting infected by maintaining copious hand washing techniques and avoiding contact with others. Avoid sharing drinks and educate the person that this is a temporary condition and that it will likely not return.
- Nurse Pattye
