Mumps - a contagious viral infection that is most common in children. She, like the flu and many other diseases, is transmitted by airborne droplets. Man is most contagious during the first two days before symptoms appear and for five days after symptoms appeared.

Symptoms

Mumps Symptoms usually appear 14-25 days after infection; The average incubation period is seventeen days.

The most common and recognizable symptom of mumps - inflammation of the parotid and salivary glands. They are located on either side of the face just below the ears. In most cases, both are affected gland, although sometimes increases only one of them. The inflammation can cause pain, increased sensitivity in the neck and difficulty swallowing.

Other symptoms of mumps:

• Headache;
• Joint pain;
• Malaise, nausea;
• Dry mouth;
• Weak abdominal pain Abdominal pain: Types and Symptoms ;
• Fatigue, lethargy;
• Lack of appetite;
• High body temperature (from 38C and above).

When you need to seek medical care

If you suspect a pig in a child should be as soon as possible to see a doctor. Although this disease is not dangerous symptoms of the mumps, may indicate a more serious infectious diseases. So you should be screened to make sure that the child really pig.

Causes

The causative agent of mumps is a virus that belongs to the paramyxovirus family. While infecting the virus through the respiratory tract enters the parotid gland, where it begins to multiply. This causes inflammation and swollen glands. The virus is transmitted by contact with the saliva of an infected person to air, as well as various surface - such as a table, a door handle, towels, and so forth.

Diagnostics

Mumps usually is diagnosed based on symptoms, especially this characteristic as an increase in the salivary glands. To confirm the diagnosis, your doctor may prescribe a blood test or urine; this is usually done in the presence of particularly severe symptoms or complications.

Treatment

Currently there are no antiviral drugs that could be cured pig. Therefore, the goal of treatment is to relieve symptoms as long as the body's immune system to fight infection. Patients with mumps patients are advised to:

• How much rest until the symptoms disappear pigs;
• Take nonprescription pain relievers, such as ibuprofen, aspirin, or acetaminophen (aspirin should not be given to children under sixteen years of age);
• Apply to the neck cold and warm compresses;
• Eat foods that do not need to chew - for example, soups, mashed potatoes, some oatmeal.

If within seven days of no improvement, or sudden symptoms are aggravated, should consult a doctor.

To prevent infection of other people with a minimum of five days after the onset of symptoms should not go to school or work. He needs to wash their hands frequently with soap and warm water, cover your mouth when sneezing or coughing, and use separate utensils and towels.

Complications of mumps

• Inflammation of the testicles. This complication occurs in one in five young people and men who have suffered from mumps after puberty Puberty child - stages of a complex path . The first signs of inflammation of the testicles appear between the fourth and eighth day after an inflammation of the salivary glands. In some cases it is only six weeks later. Normally, inflammation occurs suddenly and affects only one testicle. It becomes unusually warm to the touch, touching it causes pain. Typically, the pain can be alleviated by using OTC analgesics; if they do not help, ask your doctor to prescribe a more potent analgesic. Cold compresses and supports sports underwear also help to cope with signs of inflammation.
• Inflammation takes a few days; In some cases, one egg is slightly reduced in size - typically, it does not affect the potency or human fertility.
• Viral meningitis Meningitis - an inflammation of the meninges   may develop if the mumps virus penetrated mater; This occurs in one of the seven patients mumps. Unlike bacterial meningitis, which is potentially life-threatening disease, viral meningitis Viral meningitis - not uncommon   It causes less severe symptoms similar to flu symptoms, and the risk of serious complications of this disease is insignificant. Common symptoms of viral meningitis are sensitivity to light and vomiting. Symptoms usually disappear within fourteen days.
• Inflammation of the ovaries. One out of twenty women who contracted mumps after puberty, inflammation of the ovaries, which are symptoms of abdominal pain, high fever, malaise.
• Pancreatitis. One of twenty cases mumps leads to the development of pancreatitis. The most common symptom of this disease is sudden pain in the center of the upper part of the abdominal parish. Other symptoms of pancreatitis - malaise, diarrhea, nausea, loss of appetite, fever, abdominal pain.

More rare complications of mumps are encephalitis (develops in 1 out of 1,000 cases), and permanent hearing loss (1 out of 20,000 cases). If you suspect a severe complication of mumps have to seek urgent medical help.

Sumamed for children available in special dosage form - in the form of a powder for suspension. Furthermore, sumamed Sumamed antibiotics wisely   children can be taken in pill with a small dosage. In any case, this antibiotic should be administered to children only by a doctor.

How does sumamed on the child's body

Sumamed (active substance - Azithromycin) is a semisynthetic broad-spectrum antibiotic macrolide-azalides (the first macrolide erythromycin). Sumamed for kids produced the Croatian pharmaceutical company Pliva powder for suspension and tablets of 125 mg.

Sumamed well absorbed from the gastrointestinal tract into the bloodstream, it quickly reaches a therapeutic concentration, which is preserved for a long time. From the blood sumamed selectively enters the inflammatory focus, and inhibits the proliferation of pathogens. This process occurs due to the fact that sumamed penetrates into the cells of infectious agents (including bacteria which parasitize inside cells in the body tissues) and suppresses the formation of these essential proteins, without which bacterial cells can not proliferate even just exist.

Impact Sumamed bacterial cells depends on the dose. When the maximum allowable dose of the cells are destroyed (bactericidal effect), and at a lower dosage suppressed their ability to grow (bacteriostatic effect).

Sensitivity to show sumamed most pathogens that cause upper respiratory tract infection, respiratory tract, skin and soft tissues of the musculoskeletal system. In addition, sensitivity to sumamed shows the bacterium that causes stomach ulcers and duodenal ulcers (Helicobacter pylori) infections and intracellular pathogens, such as (chlamydia, ureaplasma This insidious ureaplasma - often too late , Mycoplasma).

A characteristic feature of Sumamed considered his ability to get inside the macrophages - cells that are the first to fall in the inflammation and absorb the pathogens by dissolving them in yourself. Since macrophages are the link of cell-mediated immunity, which takes the first "hit" by the infection, they rush to the site of "landing" bacteria instantly, and it allows you to create in the inflammation necessary concentration of Sumamed in the next day. The conclusion sumamed, on the contrary, very slowly, which allows it to maintain a therapeutic concentration for at least four days after discontinuation. Thus, three reception Sumamed allows for a full 7-day treatment with this antibiotic.

Sumamed excreted mainly in urine, but partially and faeces.

Appointment Sumamed for children - Instructions

Sumamed prescribed for children weighing at least 10 kg (usually children from 6 months and older) in infectious and inflammatory diseases caused by susceptible to the infectious agents. A wide range of actions you can assign it Sumamed without crop on sensitivity to pathogens. This is very useful in the treatment of acute illnesses in an outpatient setting, but should not be used in the treatment of chronic infectious and inflammatory diseases - chronic processes require a preliminary study on the sensitivity of bacteria to antibiotics.

Summamed used for such infectious and inflammatory diseases of bacterial origin, such as:

• upper respiratory tract infection - purulent tonsillitis, pharyngitis, otitis media, sinusitis (sinusitis, frontal sinusitis), inflammation of the larynx (laryngitis);
• respiratory tract infections - tracheitis, bronchitis, pneumonia Pneumonia - Symptoms and Causes ;
• soft tissue infection - pustular rash, boils Boils and carbuncles - will warm compress , Abscesses, mastitis, erysipelas (strep) inflammation;
• infectious diseases - scarlet fever, Lyme disease;
• infectious-inflammatory diseases of bones and joints - osteomyelitis and arthritis;
• gastric ulcer and duodenal ulcer with a laboratory confirmed the presence of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori.

Contraindications

Sumamed not take the drug if you are hypersensitive, with severe liver and kidney diseases in violation of their functions, with severe diseases of the cardiovascular system, which are accompanied by violation of the heart rate.

There are also age their limits for the purpose summamedom. It is not necessary to appoint sumamed suspension in children 6 months weighing less than 10 kg. But in children's hospitals under the supervision of a physician sumamed appointed and at a younger age, with the exception of only a newborn. Sumamed tablets can be administered to the age of three, and Sumamed injection - just 16 years old.

Galina Romanenko