Complications of mumps

Mumps can cause serious complications. In most cases, with timely treatment of mumps and proper approach to treatment of the disease the inflammatory process is limited to salivary glands and not to other bodies, nevertheless the risk of complications of mumps remains high, especially if the disease is severe.

Complications of mumps from the glands of internal secretion

In addition to the salivary glands, the inflammatory process can affect and some other glands: pancreas, prostate, female sex glands, lacrimal glands, thyroid gland, etc.

Inflammation of the pancreas accompanied by abdominal pain and vomiting. The pain is localized in the left upper abdomen. The consequence of this inflammation can be a youth diabetes.

Pancreatitis as a complication of mumps is seen in 50 % of patients. Most often an inflammatory process in the pancreas and in the salivary glands starts at the same time, sometimes a complication of the disease develops in the first week, very rarely – in the second week. Symptoms of mumps in this case joined by nausea, vomiting, hiccups, violation of stool (constipation, less often diarrhea). In children under two years, the chair becomes a liquid, it is possible to detect particles of undigested food to the end, the white lumps. The language of the patient dry and covered with bloom. In severe cases, there is rapid pulse, drop in blood pressure can be collapse.

Orchitis post mumps occurs in men, in 68% of cases among preschoolers develop orchitis 2 % of boys. Adolescent ority are more common than in children up to 10-11 years. Orchitis begins acutely from the third to the 10th day of the disease the mumps, but it can start later, between the 14th and 19th day and even after two or more weeks. Mumps often develops inflammation of the seminal gland on the one hand, in most cases right.

In adolescents and adult men can develop prostatitis (inflammation of prostate), which is accompanied by pain in the perineum, worse during urination or defecation. To diagnose the disease by palpation, he felt the enlarged gland through the rectum.

Adolescent girls may experience oophoritis (inflammation of the female genital glands). The disease begins acutely and is accompanied by severe pain and fever. After 5-7 days the inflammation passes quickly, the forecast in most cases favorable.

Mastitis asa complication of mumps can occur in both women and men. The disease is accompanied by high fever, pain mammary glands, their seals. The inflammation goes away in a few days and is not accompanied by purulent discharge.

A very rare complication of mumps is inflammation of the thyroid gland – thyroiditis. For the disease characterized by high fever, tenderness of the cervical, excessive sweating, exophthalmos.

Mumps can cause inflammation in the lacrimal gland (dacryoadenitis). The disease is accompanied by severe pain in the eyes, edema of the eyelids.

A complication of mumps of the internal organs and the Central nervous system

The inflammatory process can also affect some internal organs: liver, spleen, organs of hearing and vision, as well as the joints.

In a typical course mumps complications can arise from the Central nervous system. So, before the sixth day of the disease appear symptoms of serous meningitis, which is a manifestation of mumps may be limited. Often the inflammation of the meninges occurs in children three to nine years.

In rare cases, mumps meningoencephalitis occurs. It can begin in children under the age of six, often after the first week of the disease. In this case, affects the cranial nerves, the cerebellum, the pyramidal and the vestibular system.