What are the symptoms and what parts of the body are affected?
The symptoms that Mumps bring forth at first are usually very small and easily unrecognizable although further down the track symptoms do start to result easily identified. To prove this it has been tested that 1 in 5 people with mumps have no visible symptoms. Although the symptoms that do occur include, distressing swelling of the salivary glands (which is the most common symptom), painful swallowing and chewing, headaches and fevers, Stiff Neck, loss of appetite, fatigue, Malaise (feeling sick all the time) weakness and easily disorientated (drowsiness). These symptoms will appear 14-25 days following the diagnosis. This time is otherwise known as the incubation Period.
There consists many different forms of affects mumps brings fourth, depending on where the virus chooses to spread to, these places that the virus target are; Salivary Glands, Testis (In a Male), Ovaries (In a woman), Pancreas and the Brain.
Salivary Glands- This virus causes these glands to swell and cause pain and distress, affecting your daily swallowing and chewing actions.
Testis- This virus provokes pain, swelling and tenderness. And in some cases shrinkage and sterility.
Ovaries- In this virus pain up-rises in the lower abdomen.
Pancreas- The pancreas virus inflames and infects the pancreas and makes pain the abdominal region.
Brain- Once this virus reaches the blood system of the Brain it causes serious issues that most likely turn out to affect the body in the long run. Meningitis and
encephalitis which are brain infections that do appear. The complications that can stay with you in the future are, paralysis, deafness, hydrocephalus and seizures.
There consists many different forms of affects mumps brings fourth, depending on where the virus chooses to spread to, these places that the virus target are; Salivary Glands, Testis (In a Male), Ovaries (In a woman), Pancreas and the Brain.
Salivary Glands- This virus causes these glands to swell and cause pain and distress, affecting your daily swallowing and chewing actions.
Testis- This virus provokes pain, swelling and tenderness. And in some cases shrinkage and sterility.
Ovaries- In this virus pain up-rises in the lower abdomen.
Pancreas- The pancreas virus inflames and infects the pancreas and makes pain the abdominal region.
Brain- Once this virus reaches the blood system of the Brain it causes serious issues that most likely turn out to affect the body in the long run. Meningitis and
encephalitis which are brain infections that do appear. The complications that can stay with you in the future are, paralysis, deafness, hydrocephalus and seizures.
Above is a diagram providing a useful insight to just where virus's target in general.
Viral infections target many parts of our body and its systems, although it regularly targets the Endocrine system, meaning during this virus's destructions it makes affects this system and makes it weak.