Mumps disease and its foreign terms also called “Abu Ka’ab” disease, is a viral infection and infectious diseases, through which may be infected the glands of the salivary person with aches and swelling, specifically in the parotid glands through which the disease derives its name and that exist between the ear and jaw, Which is the swelling that appears on the third day of the disease of the characteristics that characterize the disease.
Sometimes, the patient may not develop mumps by swelling in the glands, where the infection appears instead in upper respiratory tracts.
Its symptoms are similar to flu symptoms such as bloating in the cheeks, abdominal pain, mild fever, headaches, lack of appetite. Abu Ka’ab is transmitted through sneezing and coughing, as well as in the case of food, food or drinks being shared with a person who is infected, or using his tools that may be contaminated by the virus.
Mumps disease in children is mild and has rare complications. These complications may include: loss of hearing, miscarriage of the baby to a woman with mumps and a pregnant woman in her first three months, pancreatitis and encephalitis as well as the membranes that she encapsulates.
While the symptoms of the disease in adults who are infected are more serious unit, the more the possibility of exacerbating the disease compared to children.
Of the most vulnerable cases of the disease specifically, including:
- Those who did not receive the vaccination in full are two separate doses.
- In cases of high-prevalence areas such as South-East Asia, Africa, where these areas are considered to be low in the region.
- Those who suffer from weakness in the immune system.
- In terms of age, children between 2 and 12 years are the most vulnerable.
- The seasons of the spread of this disease, which is likely season winter and spring.
In terms of mumps disease, the disease has the same capacity for measles and flu in the infection, where the person is infected almost three days before the onset of symptoms of the disease, and extends the ability of a person with mumps infection for about four days. The incubation period is estimated from 15 to 19 days. Most cases of Abu Ka’ab are often treated at home through rest, and if complications occur, the patient must go to hospital for treatment.
For prevention of mumps, you can avoid the infection almost completely through the vaccine, namely vaccinations given the first of them at the age of 12 – 15 months, and the second at the age of 4 – 6 years, and add to that there is also a vaccine called a quart vaccine given against mumps, Measles, chickenpox.