What are the symptoms and adverse effects of Mumps?
The most obvious sign of mumps is swelling of the cheeks and jaw, which is caused by inflammation in the salivary glands. This swelling usually lasts for 10 days associated with fever for 1-6 days. It affects various organs like salivary glands (Parotid glands), testicles (in boys) and ovary (in females), pancreas, and joints. Mumps can cause severe complications in children like Orchitis in boys (inflammation of testicles), which may lead to infertility. Mumps can also affect reproductive organs in females. Moreover, Mumps can also cause permanent brain damage, deafness, joint pain and even diabetes. · About 1 child in every 10 who get mumps also gets meningitis (an inflammation of the covering of the brain and spinal cord) · Occasionally mumps also causes encephalitis. Mumps is a disease, which causes high morbidity but low mortality. The symptoms are troublesome, which is inflammation of the brain itself. · About 38% teenage or adult men who get mumps develop a painful swelling of t
