About 1 in every 4 people has had glandular fever once in their lifetime. The virus known as Epstein-Barr is said to be the one causing glandular fever also known as infectious mononucleosis. The glandular fever can incubate from 30 up to 50 days. Signs and symptoms of glandular fever will already tell the doctor enough to make a diagnosis. Glandular fever will not cause any serious health risk but it tends to last weeks before subsiding. Patients who had Glandular fever can still spread the Epstein-Barr virus for months after they had recovered. Once a person had contacted with glandular fever, he/she would still remain infectious for weeks and even months. Not all who has the Epstein-Barr virus in their body would end up with glandular fever. A patient can experience headache or exhaustion on the onset of the glandular fever combined with other mild symptoms. Children have glandular fever symptoms at an earlier time than adults who notice the symptoms 4 to 7 wks after they got infected. Distinctive symptoms of mono which appear will be the swelling of your lymph nodes and also fever. A patient experiencing glandular fever symptoms like exhaustion can feel this from weeks and even months.
Usually, severe glandular fever symptoms are gone in 3 months or so. On the first 2 to 3 weeks after the first symptoms of glandular fever showed up, you must get a lot of rest. Before a child turns 5 years old, he or she may get the glandular fever as 50% of children this age already got it. Glandular fever is rarely going to cause complications and majority of children will be back to normal. There is no medication available yet that fights against Epstein-Barr virus that causes the disease. A patient with glandular fever must drink plenty of water and unsweetened juices to get better fast. If glandular fever causes you to have sore throat, you can get some relief by gargling salt water. It’s not wise to drink antibiotics when you have glandular fever as this fever is viral and not bacterial in nature. About 50% of people that gets glandular fever also have swollen spleen. There are also known cases where patients with glandular fever have malfunctioning immune system as a result and shows up after a few years. It may be possible that genes can dictate whether the patient is vulnerable to contacting glandular fever.
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