Mumpsvax
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Mumpsvax
Mumpsvax Side Effects Center
This is not a complete list of side effects and others may occur. Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.
What is Patient Information in Detail?
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Mumpsvax in Detail - Patient Information: Side Effects
Keep track of any and all side effects your child has after receiving this vaccine. If the child ever receives a booster dose, you will need to tell the doctor if the previous shots caused any side effects.
Becoming infected with mumps is much more dangerous to your child's health than receiving the vaccine to protect against it. Like any medicine, this vaccine can cause side effects, but the risk of serious side effects is extremely low.
Get emergency medical help if your child has any of these signs of an allergic reaction: hives; difficulty breathing; swelling of your face, lips, tongue, or throat.
Call your doctor at once if the child has any of these serious side effects:
- problems with hearing or vision;
- extreme drowsiness, fainting;
- fussiness, irritability, crying for an hour or longer;
- easy bruising or bleeding, weakness;
- seizure (black-out or convulsions);
- high fever (within a few hours or a few days after the vaccine); or
- swelling of the testicles (scrotum) in a male child.
Less serious side effects include:
- burning or stinging where the shot was given;
- low fever;
- mild fussiness or crying;
- cough, runny nose; or
- diarrhea.
This is not a complete list of side effects and others may occur. Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report vaccine side effects to the US Department of Health and Human Services at 1-800-822-7967.
Read the entire detailed patient monograph for Mumpsvax (Mumps Virus Vaccine Live) »
What is Prescribing information?
The FDA package insert formatted in easy-to-find categories for health professionals and clinicians.
Mumpsvax FDA Prescribing Information: Side Effects
(Adverse Reactions)
SIDE EFFECTS
The following adverse reactions are listed in decreasing order of severity, without regard to causality, within each body system category and have been reported during clinical trials, with use of the marketed vaccine, or with use of polyvalent vaccine containing mumps:
Body as a Whole
Cardiovascular System
Digestive System
Pancreatitis; diarrhea; parotitis.
Endocrine System
Hemic and Lymphatic System
Thrombocytopenia; purpura; lymphadenopathy; leukocytosis.
Immune System
Anaphylaxis and anaphylactoid reactions have been reported as well as related phenomena such as angioneurotic edema (including peripheral or facial edema) and bronchial spasm in individuals with or without an allergic history.
Nervous System
Encephalitis; Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS); febrile seizures; ocular palsies.
Cases of aseptic meningitis have been reported to VAERS following measles, mumps, and rubella vaccination. Although a causal relationship between the Urabe strain of mumps vaccine and aseptic meningitis has been shown, there are no data to link Jeryl Lynn mumps vaccine to aseptic meningitis.
Respiratory System
Skin
Stevens-Johnson Syndrome; erythema multiforme; urticaria.
Local reactions including burning/stinging at injection site; wheal and flare.
Special Senses - Ear
Special Senses - Eye
Optic neuritis; papillitis; retrobulbar neuritis; conjunctivitis.
Urogenital System
Other
Death from various, and in some cases unknown, causes has been reported rarely following vaccination with measles, mumps, and rubella vaccines; however, a causal relationship has not been established. No deaths or permanent sequelae were reported in a published post-marketing surveillance study in Finland involving 1.5 million children and adults who were vaccinated with M-M-R II during 1982-1993.33
Under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, health-care providers and manufacturers are required to record and report certain suspected adverse events occurring within specific time periods after vaccination. However, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) has established a Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) which will accept all reports of suspected events.32 A VAERS report form as well as information regarding reporting requirements can be obtained by calling VAERS 1-800-822-7967.
Read the entire FDA prescribing information for Mumpsvax (Mumps Virus Vaccine Live) »
Additional Mumpsvax Information
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