mumps symptoms causes and treatment
Treating mumps. Treatment for mumps is focused on relieving symptoms until your bodyâs immune system fights off the infection. There are currently no medications to treat the mumps virus. The infection usually passes within a week or two. In the meantime, the measures below may help.
In about half of patients, symptoms of mumps infection may include fever, headache, sore throat, muscle aches, poor appetite and malaise (a general feeling of sickness). The mumps virus causes pain and swelling in front of the earlobe, called parotitis.
more about Mumps. Mumps: An acute viral disease that causes the salivary glands to become swollen, sore and inflamed. Immunization had greatly reduced the incidence of this disease. More detailed information about the symptoms, causes, and treatments of Mumps is available below.