Suppurative parotitis is an uncommon entity identified in newborns. While Staphylococcus aureus has been frequently identified as the causative pathogen among the few patients diagnosed with neonatal suppurative parotitis (NSP), there has only been one prior case described in the literature that was due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Because of its virulence, MRSA presen...

During the last few years attention has become focussed on the uncommon condition of recurrent swelling of the parotid glands. An annotation in the Lancet (1936) fairly well summarized the knowledge of the condition up to date. Recurrent parotitis due to pyogenic causes have been described fully by Payne (1931, 1933) and Pyrah (1933). Of the nonpyogenic type Bruce Pearson (1935) collected eleve...

From time to time a child is seen with swelling of the parotid gland in whom mumps is diagnosed, yet the parent states that the patient has had that disase several times before. Due largely to the work of Payne (1933, 1938, 1940) the condition of recurrent parotid swelling has been defined as a clinical entity, but most of the published accounts refer to adults. The disease, however, is by no m...

In the following paper a series of cases is described of recurrent swelling of the parotid gland of a type which hitherto has not been clearly recognized. Recurrent swelling, the result of infections of the gland or its ducts is well known as in the cases reported by Payne7 and Pyrah"'. In the eleven cases now to be described infection seems to play but a small part in the etiology of the condi...

To the Editor: Control of com-municable diseases often relies in part on school and workplace exclusion. Exclusion policies are also likely to play a role in pandemic infl uenza control and currently are used as policy for control of several vaccine-preventable diseases, including mumps (1). Mumps virus is typically present in saliva from 2–3 days before to 4–5 days after onset of parotitis. Ho...

IMPORTANCE Juvenile recurrent parotitis (JRP) is characterized by recurrent painful swelling of the parotid gland that occurs in the pediatric population. Sialendoscopy with and without ductal corticosteroid infusion (DCI) has been found to be effective in the treatment of JRP and autoimmune parotitis. OBJECTIVE To determine the utility of instrumentation vs pharmacotherapy alone for juvenile...

INTRODUCTION Neonatal parotitis is a rare disease. Neonatal suppurative parotitis commonly presents with facial swelling, irritability, tenderness of parotid region, and with or without fever. Acute neonatal suppurative parotitis is one of the differential diagnoses of facial swelling with a prevalence of 3.8/10'000 of neonatal admission. CASE PRESENTATION A 32-day-old girl with fever and res...