What are the treatments for viral mumps?

Methods for treating viral mumps include general life care treatment and antiviral treatment. Patients should get as much rest as possible and pay attention to oral health and hygiene. Some analgesics can be used to relieve parotid swelling and pain or headaches.

1. General treatment: bed rest, liquid diet, avoid acidic drinks. Pay attention to oral hygiene and rinse your mouth with saline after meals.

2. In the early stage of antiviral treatment, ribavirin 1g per day can be tried, and 15mg/kg for children can be given by intravenous drip. The course of treatment is 5 to 7 days. There are also reports that the use of interferon to treat adult patients with mumps and orchitis can make the symptoms of mumps and orchitis disappear more quickly.

3. Analgesics can be used for symptomatic treatment of headaches and parotid pain. Testicular pain can be supported by cotton pads and T-bands.

4. Application of adrenal cortical hormones: For patients with severe illness or complications of meningoencephalitis and myocarditis, dexamethasone 5-10 mg per day can be used by intravenous drip for 5-7 days.

5. Do not let your child go to school to avoid infecting other classmates. Do not let your child go to school until five days after the parotid swelling subsides.

6. Relieve pain. In the early stages of cheek swelling, you can use a cold towel to apply local cold compresses to cause local blood vessels to constrict, thereby reducing the degree of inflammation and congestion and achieving the purpose of relieving pain. You can also mix Ruyi Jinhuang Powder with tea or vinegar and apply it to the affected area to keep the local medicine moist to exert its efficacy and prevent pain caused by dryness and cracking. If a boy has testicular pain, he can use a bandage to support the scrotum to relieve the pain.

7. Lower body temperature. Measure your child's temperature regularly and take cooling measures if necessary. Encourage children to drink plenty of water to facilitate sweat evaporation and dissipate heat. When the fever is high, you can use cold compresses on the head, warm water or alcohol baths to physically cool down, or take appropriate amounts of antipyretics. In the early stages of fever, ribavirin, interferon or isatis root can be given for antiviral treatment.

8. Reasonable diet. When suffering from mumps, the pain is often aggravated by opening the mouth and chewing food. Therefore, the child should be fed nutritious and easily digestible liquid food, semi-liquid food or soft food. Do not feed the child sour, spicy, overly sweet, or dry and hard food, because these foods can easily stimulate the parotid glands and increase parotid secretion, stimulate the already swollen parotid duct opening, and aggravate the pain. Give the child plenty of water, which is conducive to reducing fever and excretion of toxins.