MUMPS: INFORMATION FOR YOUR DOCTOR VISIT

This is the continuation of a series of videos designed to give individuals information that they can use to prepare for a visit to a physician. The videos are designed to help insure that the individual can ask appropriate questions of the physician and to increase the likelihood that quality

Mumps

Mumps is another acute viral infection that children should be vaccinated against.

I am discussing it because a vaccination for Measles, Mumps and Rubella is usually a combined vaccine [MMR] given to children. So, if a child’s parent refuses to his or their child vaccinated, the child is also susceptible to mumps and rubella as well as measles.

The mumps virus has an affinity for attacking salivary glands and the coverings of the brain.

The incubation period is usually two to three weeks.

Normally the individual will have a high fever, fatigue and headache for up to a week.

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