MMR Flashcards
What are the symptoms of Mumps?
Parotitis
Non-specific symptoms such as low-grade fever, headache, malaise, muscle ache, and loss of appetite.
With Mumps, what is the complication affecting 5% of females?
What are the symptoms presented?
Oophoritis.
Lower abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting
Infants younger than how old will unlikely suffer from Mumps?
Infants younger than 1 year old
What is the management of Mumps?
Mumps is a notifiable disease.
Advice patients that it is self-limiting and will resolve within 1 week
What is offered if males suffering from mumps-related epididymo-orchitis is concerned about fertility?
In which other condition is this offered too?
Reassure that it is unlikely for there to be long-term complications with fertility, but offer semen analysis 3 months after Mumps has resolved.
Semen analysis is also offered to those with severe or bilateral epididymo-orchitis.
Which conditions are caused by Paramyxoviruses?
Measles, Mumps and Parainfluenza
The main complications of Measles affects which systems in the body?
What are the complications?
Respiratory system and CNS.
Pneumonia
Otitis Media
Febrile convulsions
Acute Measles Postinfectious Encephalitis
SSPE - Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis
What is the total duration of the rash in Measles?
1 week
What is the Kissing Disease?
Infectious Mononucleosis caused by EBV