My 4 yo is completely unvaxed. (I haven't been around MDC recently, hopefully that won't shock anyone!) I really think that she has mumps, but we took her to Urgent Care and it was like that option was not even considered at all. Instead, we were told she probably had a cold and that the pain in her cheeks indicated that. To look for her fever to break and the mucus/congestion to come (she's had NOTHING out of her nose, is breathing fine...)
From (roughly) Romm's "Vaccinations: A thoughtful Parent's Guide"
Yes to everything for sure except headache and aching muscles, though I have reason to believe the latter to be true. Her appetite literally dropped off a cliff yesterday, and I've had to pester her to even take sips of anything. The kid turned down a POPSICLE, which she LOVES. That is completely abnormal behavior.
So- her fever came during the night on Friday night, and at 4 am last night (Saturday) G woke me up to tell me that her CHEEK was hurting, at it was indeed a bit swollen. I would say that today her cheeks look a tiny bit swollen (to me) compared to what she normally looks like- something a mom can tell, but probably not a doctor who rarely if ever sees her.
She is now telling me that her other cheek hurts and the first cheek doesn't hurt any more... like there seems to have been a shift. She is telling me her WHOLE cheek hurts (like covering it with her hand and saying it hurts). She's also indicated some soreness in her throat. Last night her left cheek was the one she complained of the most and it looked puffy, now it's the right side.
Yep- without meds, it's between 101 and 102.2.
Thoughts? G has a history of when she gets something, you really know, she's a pretty pitiful little girl. We even knew when she had rubella which is actually even more mild than mumps. (She had every symptom of rubella, down to the passing rash which we saw, and then DH got it too... but it was terrible for him because he is an adult (not vaxed as a child b/c of parents religious beliefs, and he ended up with pneumonia a few weeks later... I think I posted about that here when that happened a few years ago.)
My big issue is I sort of want to know if it *could* be mumps because I'm supposed to take her to VBS with me this week and teach. They have a sub for me tomorrow. I guess if she suddenly gets snotty and the fever breaks as the Urgent Care doc said it could be just that, an URI, but if I don't see that, should I treat it as possibly mumps or is it just really unlikely?
From (roughly) Romm's "Vaccinations: A thoughtful Parent's Guide"
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| "The onset of mumps is gradual, with the initial symptoms being chills, fever, malaise, headache, appetite loss and aching muscles." |
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| "Pain beneath the ears and under the jaw begins 24 hours after these other symptoms, after which salivary glands can become extremely sore and swollen... in 1/3 of all cases, no parotid swelling occurs." |
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| "Often the swelling in one gland begins to subside just as the other begins to swell." |
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| "Fever is moderate, ranging between 101 and 102 degrees Farenheit, though occasionally it may become higher than this." |
Thoughts? G has a history of when she gets something, you really know, she's a pretty pitiful little girl. We even knew when she had rubella which is actually even more mild than mumps. (She had every symptom of rubella, down to the passing rash which we saw, and then DH got it too... but it was terrible for him because he is an adult (not vaxed as a child b/c of parents religious beliefs, and he ended up with pneumonia a few weeks later... I think I posted about that here when that happened a few years ago.)
My big issue is I sort of want to know if it *could* be mumps because I'm supposed to take her to VBS with me this week and teach. They have a sub for me tomorrow. I guess if she suddenly gets snotty and the fever breaks as the Urgent Care doc said it could be just that, an URI, but if I don't see that, should I treat it as possibly mumps or is it just really unlikely?
