Sunday, June 27, 2010

Treatment of mumps and Java style


Mumps is a systemic illness caused by the paramyxovirus. It is a human disease that occurs worldwide. The mumps vaccine was introduced in 1967, and the disease became nationally reportable in 1968. The incidence has decreased substantially with vaccination, but periods of resurgence have occurred in recent years.

The mumps virus is transmitted by respiratory droplets. It has an incubation period of 14-25 days after which time prodromal symptoms occur and last anywhere from 3-5 days. After the prodrome, the symptoms of the virus depend on which organ is affected. The most common presentation is a parotitis, which occurs in 30-40% of patients. Other reported sites of infection are the testes, pancreas, eyes, ovaries, central nervous system, joints, and kidneys. A patient is considered infectious from about 3 days before the onset and up to 4 days after the start of active parotitis. Infections can be asymptomatic in up to 20% of persons. (Mumps: eMedicine Emergency Medicine)

In Javanese tradition, in the 1980s mumps disease becoming more common. But do you know? That people treat mumps Java in a way that does not make sense in healthcare, namely:
1. By applying blawu (dye clothing generally blue) to the body that are swollen.
2. Hanging fruit in the neck pace of patients who contract the disease mumps
And do you believe you that the way to all patients recover?
I believe that

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