MMR

Question 1

What are the symptoms of Mumps?

Answer 1

Parotitis

Non-specific symptoms such as low-grade fever, headache, malaise, muscle ache, and loss of appetite.

Question 2

With Mumps, what is the complication affecting 5% of females?
What are the symptoms presented?

Answer 2

Oophoritis.

Lower abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting

Question 3

Infants younger than how old will unlikely suffer from Mumps?

Answer 3

Infants younger than 1 year old

Question 4

What is the management of Mumps?

Answer 4

Mumps is a notifiable disease.

Advice patients that it is self-limiting and will resolve within 1 week

Question 5

What is offered if males suffering from mumps-related epididymo-orchitis is concerned about fertility?
In which other condition is this offered too?

Answer 5

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.

Question 6

Which conditions are caused by Paramyxoviruses?

Answer 6

Measles, Mumps and Parainfluenza

Question 7

The main complications of Measles affects which systems in the body?
What are the complications?

Answer 7

Respiratory system and CNS.

Pneumonia
Otitis Media
Febrile convulsions
Acute Measles Postinfectious Encephalitis
SSPE - Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis

Question 8

What is the total duration of the rash in Measles?

Answer 8

1 week

Question 9

What is the Kissing Disease?

Answer 9

Infectious Mononucleosis caused by EBV