Is acute suppurative mumps contagious?

Is acute suppurative mumps contagious?

Acute suppurative mumps is not contagious. Acute suppurative mumps is caused by bacterial infection and is generally not contagious.

Symptoms of acute suppurative mumps:

1. Acute suppurative parotitis develops rapidly, mostly on one side. Early symptoms are atypical and relatively mild.

2. When eating for the first time, there is pain and tension between the chin and the parotid area centered on the earlobe, slight swelling, and it is a little difficult to open the mouth. The earlobe can also be lifted. The pain is characterized by continuous pain or jumping pain.

3. Parotid pain worsens for 7 to 10 days, with throbbing pain, redness of the skin, and more severe swelling. The swelling may affect the eyelid, cheek, neck and other parts of the same side, and is most obvious below the earlobe.

4. Obvious tenderness, with a sense of fluctuation when pressing the local area. At the same time, turbid yellow and thick purulent secretions can be squeezed out of the opening of the buccal duct in the oral cavity.

5. Difficulty in opening the mouth, greatly reduced saliva secretion, and temporary facial paralysis may occur. If not opened in time, the abscess may ulcerate on the skin of the jaw or oral mucosa.

Drug treatment is mainly antibacterial drug treatment. Anti-Gram-positive coccal antibiotics are the first choice, such as amoxicillin soluble tablets, clindamycin hydrochloride tablets, and cefdinir tablets. Purulent secretions should be collected from the parotid duct as soon as possible for bacterial culture and drug sensitivity testing, and the most sensitive and effective antibacterial drug should be selected.