What are the symptoms of mumps and testicular inflammation?

The male reproductive system is prone to infection and disease, especially the testicular area, which may cause mumps orchitis. At this time, the patient will be accompanied by a series of serious symptoms, testicular pain is the most obvious and severe one. What other adverse reactions will occur besides this? The editor has found relevant information, and you can read it together below.

There are many ways of developing orchitis, and different types of orchitis have different symptoms. Mumps orchitis is one of them. Mumps infection is caused by the mumps virus and is transmitted by blood. Its main feature is that it is mostly secondary, and usually the onset is more acute, with unilateral testis affected most of the time. The clinical manifestations of mumps orchitis are general discomfort, chills, and high fever. If it is secondary to septicemia, the systemic symptoms are severe, and may be accompanied by gastrointestinal symptoms such as nausea and vomiting, and the parotid gland will also become enlarged.

In addition, there will always be testicular swelling and tenderness. If the purulent membrane is raised, there will be a fluctuating feeling of pus accumulation, and there will also be clinical reactions of scrotal skin redness and swelling and intrascrotal hydrocele. The patient's affected testicle can be enlarged by 1-2 times, swollen and painful, and move to the ipsilateral groin. If complicated with epididymitis, the boundary between the testicle and epididymis is unclear. Non-specific orchitis, such as testicular abscess, has a fluctuating feeling when touched. If the treatment is not timely or thorough, it can turn into a chronic disease, causing testicular atrophy, leading to sexual dysfunction and infertility. Mumps orchitis, acute symptoms usually occur about 1 week after the parotid swelling and disappear in about 10 days. 1/3 of patients have testicular atrophy, but it rarely affects fertility.

Generally speaking, mumps orchitis is still relatively serious. Although it generally does not cause infertility symptoms, patients still need to take it seriously and not take it lightly. They should go to the hospital for examination and treatment in time after the onset of the disease, and need to persist in taking medication until completely cured to avoid unnecessary pain due to recurrence.