What treatments are available?
To this present day there has been no medication discovered to cure the Mumps Illness, Antibiotics are useless because they do not fight virus's. Although there are many treatments that are around to help prevent further complications and sooth symptoms. These include:
-Bed rest, to ensure you are charged up with energy to fight the virus.
-Keep fluids up, to ensure your health remains in good shape.
-Isolation, keeping distance from other people is vital to ensure it is not catched by bystanders.
-Soft foods, eating foods such as soup will help avoid the painful chewing and swallowing.
-Paracetamol, Acetaminophen and Ibuprofen are some drugs that can be taken to help with the pain and fevers that tag along.
-Keep the mouth sanitary, meaning maintaining thoroughly rinsing it out.
There are also many different versions of remedies people believe help or even cure Mumps. Most of these remedies believe that fresh products such as ginger, cucumber and aloe Vera are the key to fighting this virus and basically any virus.
-Bed rest, to ensure you are charged up with energy to fight the virus.
-Keep fluids up, to ensure your health remains in good shape.
-Isolation, keeping distance from other people is vital to ensure it is not catched by bystanders.
-Soft foods, eating foods such as soup will help avoid the painful chewing and swallowing.
-Paracetamol, Acetaminophen and Ibuprofen are some drugs that can be taken to help with the pain and fevers that tag along.
-Keep the mouth sanitary, meaning maintaining thoroughly rinsing it out.
There are also many different versions of remedies people believe help or even cure Mumps. Most of these remedies believe that fresh products such as ginger, cucumber and aloe Vera are the key to fighting this virus and basically any virus.
In Australia every child is presented with the opportunity to immunate, this is the only way we know to prevent Mumps. Because of this it is the reason why it is highly unlikely to catch the virus on Australian soil, but in less developed countries such as Africa and India there remains no regulation about the immunization against mumps. Meaning it is more commonly caught. Although many Australian mothers refuse to immunize their children, for many different reasons such as they don't believe immunizing is safe.