Mumps Home Remedy Using Orange

Conditions Treated: Immune

Specific Conditions Treated: Mumps

Ingredients Used: Orange

Description: Mumps refer to a virus infection of the salivary glands, gonads, and, occasionally, other parts of the body. It is an infectious disease that occurs most frequently in children and young persons between the ages of five and fifteen years. Most persons have mumps only once in their lives, but one person in ten may have a second attack.

In children, the first sign of mumps is swelling of the salivary glands, but adults sometimes run a temperature and feel ill a couple of days before the glands enlarge. At first, the swelling is often uncomfortable or painful. If the disease occurs after puberty, the testicles may become swollen and painful in males; a similar condition may affect the female ovaries, sometimes leading to sterility.

Mumps is caused by a virus which attacks the salivary glands, particularly the parotid glands located on each side of the face just below and in front of the ear. The incubation period of the disease is about two weeks. Dietetic errors are at the root of the trouble.

Directions For Use: To begin with, the patient should be kept on a diet of orange juice diluted with warm water on a 50:50 basis, for a few days. If the orange juice does not suit the patient, the juices of other fruits such as lemon (mossambi), apple, pineapple, grapes; or vegetables like carrots should be given.

When the patient can swallow food comfortably and the swelling has subsided, an all-fruit diet should be adopted for a day or two.

Expected Results Within: 1 week