What is the best way to treat mumps?

The impact of mumps is relatively large, especially if children are infected. Be sure to let your children rest at home and prevent them from contacting other children. At the same time, use the medicine correctly under the guidance of a doctor, and let your children drink plenty of water and eat easily digestible food.

1. Isolation. Children who have been infected should be isolated immediately. When your child gets mumps, try to keep him/her at home and isolate himself/herself to prevent the spread of the epidemic after contact with other children.

2. Actively treat the disease. Parents should provide active and correct treatment for their infected children, seek medical treatment in a timely manner and take medication under the guidance of a doctor.

3. Provide good nursing care. Careful home care is also very important for the child's recovery.

(1) Let the child rest in bed more often. The diet should be soft and easy to digest. Avoid spicy and sour foods. Because these foods can easily stimulate the secretion of salivary glands, causing local pain to increase.

(2) Drink plenty of water and keep your mouth clean. You can also rinse your mouth with compound borax solution.

(3) The swollen area can be applied with Chinese medicine. Take 15g of Indigo Naturalis or 15g of the Chinese patent medicine Ruyi Jinhuang Powder and mix well with water. External application can reduce local pain and help reduce swelling. You can also take Isatis root granules at the same time.

(4) When complicated with orchitis, use cotton and a T-band to lift the testicles and apply local cold compresses to relieve pain. For severe cases, hydrocortisone 5 mg/kg per day can be used intravenously for a short period of time.

(5) When pancreatitis occurs, the patient should fast and receive intravenous fluids and antibiotics. Patients with meningoencephalitis are mainly treated symptomatically, and dehydration therapy can be used for those with increased intracranial pressure.