Parotitis primary prevention

Effective preventative measures for parotitis include the mumps vaccine, maintaining personal hygiene and limiting proximal contact with mumps or staphyloccocus aureus infected individuals, limiting sexual contact with HIV-infected individuals and using condoms during sexual intercourse, and the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin vaccine to prevent extrapulmonary tuberculosis. Preventative measures for obstruction-based parotitis include reducing risk factors for salivary gland stones and parotid gland neoplasia.

• Administering the mumps vaccine
  • 78% effective at a single dose; 88% effective with two doses administered with at least 28 days in between.^{_Vaccination_|_CDC-1|[1]}
• Personal hygiene and limiting contact exposure:^{_Transmission_|_CDC-2|[2]}
  • Washing hands frequently.
  • Avoiding fluid transmission with mumps patients.
  • Avoiding respiratory droplets from coughing mumps patients.
• Limiting contact with children between 9 months and 15 years old.^{_Vaccination_|_CDC-1|[1]}
• Limiting sexual contact with HIV-infected individuals and using condoms.^{_HIV_Basics_|_HIV/AIDS_|_CDC-3|[3]}
• Administering the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin vaccine to prevent tuberculosis.^[4]

• Reducing risk factors associated with salivary gland stones or neoplasia:
  • Limiting alcohol consumption.
  • Reducing tobacco consumption and smoking.
  • Avoiding harmful inhalants, such as pesticides.

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