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Viral parotitis
The commonest viral cause of parotitis is mumps. It usually affects 4 to 10 year olds and causes painful swelling of both parotid glands.
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The inflammation of parotitis may result from many causes, including infection, drugs, radiation, and various diseases.
Symptoms of PAROTITIS, VIRAL OR BACTERIAL
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Staphylococcal parotitis, face of elderly woman.
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Alternate Names : Parotitis, Sialadenitis
Definition
Salivary gland infections are viral or bacterial infections of the saliva-producing glands.
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Mumps
Mumps refers to an infection and inflammation of the parotid glands -- the saliva-producing glands in the mouth responsible for secreting some of the chemicals that help break down food.
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Diseases
Mumps (Epidemic parotitis)
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Parotitis causes swelling in one or both of the parotid glands. These are two large salivary glands that sit inside each cheek over the jaw in front of each ear. Usually, the problem goes away by itself, but some cases require treatment.
Parotitis; Sialadenitis
Causes, incidence, and risk factors
Salivary gland infections are somewhat common.
Parotitis
Inflammation of the parotid gland, popularly termed the mumps. [Thomas1875]
Inflammation of the parotid gland (salivary glands near the ear). [CancerWEB] ...
Parotitis with xerostomia
Heerfordt's syndrome (also called uveoparotid fever), characterized by uveitis, bilateral parotid swelling, facial palsy, and chronic fever ...
Epidemic parotitis
Causes
The mumps are caused by a virus. The virus is spread from person-to-person by respiratory droplets (for example, when you sneeze) or by direct contact with items that have been contaminated with infected saliva.
(epidemic parotitis), acute contagious viral disease, manifesting itself chiefly in pain and swelling of the salivary glands, especially those at the angle of the jaw.
Infective Parotitis
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Cynanc/ze parotidaea, parotitis; also, The Branks), a specific infectious disease characterized by inflammatory swelling of the parotid and other salivary glands, frequently occurring as an epidemic, and affecting mostly young persons.
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History: Mumps-associated orchitis occurs approximately 3 to 4 days after the salivary (parotid) gland swells (parotitis) as characteristically seen with mumps.
The formal name for mumps is 'epidemic parotitis,' a reference to the infectiousness of the disease, along with the tendency to swell the parotid glands. 'Mumps' comes from an Old English word which means 'swelling.
Paperas es el nombre más común para la parotitis. Es una infección viral que hace que las glándulas parótidas se hinchen. Las glándulas parótidas están ubicadas entre la oreja y la mandíbula.
Chronic systematic inflammatory disorder of unknown aetiology characterised by dryness of mucous membranes, primary Sjogren syndrome: without underlying autoimmune disease, recurrent parotitis in children, ...
mouth (Stomatitis, Gingivitis, Gingivostomatitis, Glossitis, Tonsillitis, Sialadenitis/Parotitis, Cheilitis, Pulpitis, Gnathitis) Â- tract (Esophagitis, Gastritis, Gastroenteritis, Enteritis, Colitis, Enterocolitis, Duodenitis, Ileitis, Caecitis, ...
Period of Communicability
A person can spread mumps 7 days prior to the onset of parotitis through 9 days after the onset of symptoms; however, a person is most contagious 2 days prior to the onset of parotitis to 4 days after the onset.
Mumps is contagious three days before until 5 days after the onset of parotitis (inflammation of the parotid gland).
Does past infection with mumps make a person immune?
Immunity acquired after contracting the disease is usually long term.
It is caused by dental infection (30%), peritonsillar abscess (PTA), pharyngeal infections, mastoiditis, or parotitis and may spread rapidly and extend into the mediastinum and soft tissues of the neck, leading to airway obstruction, ...
careful observation for erythema (document locations), hair loss, skin injury, mucositis, parotitis, weight loss, or fever
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The onset of lipodystrophy occurs in the childhood and adolescence and may occur following infections such as varicella, measles, pertussis, diphtheria, pneumonia, osteomyelitis, parotitis, infectious mononucleosis, and hepatitis.
An infected or blocked salivary gland or a salivary stone (sialolithiasis) may cause facial swelling or pain, especially in the parotid gland (parotitis), which is located near the ear.
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 See also: Symptom, Viral, Fever, Infections, Mumps
  
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