Mumps is an acute respiratory infection caused by the mumps virus and is characterized by swelling and pain in the parotid glands, accompanied by fever and mild general malaise. The disease can occur throughout the year, especially in the winter and spring. The disease mainly affects preschool and school-age children, but there is an increasing trend of adult patients. In addition to the salivary glands (parotid, submandibular, and sublingual), mumps virus can also affect other glands such as the thyroid, thymus, pancreas, mature gonads, or organs that secrete glandular functions such as the brain, liver, and heart muscle, causing complications. If there are no complications, the patient is usually in a mild condition and can take the appropriate antiviral medication such as ribavirin or unsweetened platycodon, while diet control appears to be important and beneficial to shorten the course of the disease. According to its corresponding knowledge, the diet is based on light and easily digestible foods. The common food taboos are as follows; 1. Avoid spicy and thick things: such as curry, chili, hot sauce, spicy oil, fennel, mustard, five spice powder, cinnamon, ginger, thick soup and other spicy and thick things are very stimulating to the mouth, which can make the parotid mouth red and swollen, saliva secretion difficulties, and then aggravate the condition. The actual foodstuffs are hot and spicy, which can make the body temperature rise. The actual fact is that you can find a lot of people who are not able to get a good deal on a lot of things. The actual fact is that you can find a lot of people who are not able to get a good deal on a lot of things. The disease due to chewing difficulties, food can not be well crushed, coupled with poor saliva secretion, all bring difficulties to digest food, so to ensure the digestive tract transport, do not eat cold drinks is very important. 4, avoid hard things: hard things must be chewed hard, mumps patients due to the parotid gland and under the neck lymph nodes enlarged, chewing food will cause pain, is not conducive to the recovery of mumps, so hard things can not be eaten. This kind of food is peanuts, watermelon seeds, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, apples, pineapples, small walnuts, Iraqi dates, the northeast region of the nest, sorghum cake, compressed cookies, corn rice, sorghum rice, jellyfish skin, jellyfish head, uncooked meat and fried, baked goods, etc. 5, avoid long fiber vegetables: such as celery, bamboo shoots, bamboo shoots, asparagus, leeks, garlic, bean sprouts, spinach, cucumber, water spinach, etc. need to chew hard before swallowing, mumps patients with swollen cheeks must not eat, after the swelling should be cooked and eaten. 6, avoid excitement: wine, coffee, tea are excitement, body temperature is elevated people can not take, otherwise it will cause noise and restlessness, so that the child is difficult to sleep quietly, causing fluctuations in the disease. Theophylline in tea can also raise the body temperature, and will reduce the pharmacological effects of antipyretic drugs. 7, avoid too sweet, too salty and acidic food: the diet of children suffering from this disease must be light, too sweet, too salty food will stimulate the parotid mouth and cause obstacles to the excretion of saliva, making the condition worse. Acidic foods such as vinegar, sugar and vinegar stir-fry, sour plum soup, etc. can increase saliva and aggravate the burden on the parotid gland.