4. Cold Compress Packs
Mumps can have your entire body in pain, but it’s the more specific kind of pain and swelling of the salivary glands people associate with mumps that can be counted as one of its worst symptoms – and most people who contract mumps will be affected by this symptom for approximately 10 days or more after they’ve started showing the first symptoms of the condition.
The swelling can be severe, and it can usually make even simple actions such as swallowing or turning the head extremely painful.
Cold compress packs help a great deal towards reducing the associated swelling, and they can also help for the associated pain that comes along with having mumps. Pain felt in other parts of the body (such as the groin) can also many times be helped by the application of cold compress packs.
They’re also longer-lasting (and less dangerous for a fever) than a cold bath when you’re battling the symptoms of a severe infection.