Other names: swelling Mumps

Parotid gland is one of the big three pairs of salivary glands. Located below the ear and on the edges of the lower jaw. In these places, we can see or feel swelling in various diseases of parotid gland.

Swelling can be on both sides or only on one side of the face. Sometimes red and painful to the touch as is the case especially in inflammation. Usually they formed first on one side and then on the other. Known epidemic diseases in children mumps. Today are not very common, because they belong to a scheme of compulsory vaccination. Exerting a sudden swelling of the parotid gland with fevers during their prolonged duration and swollen glands second. The patient has a feeling of tension in the carotid arteries, feels pain when opening the mouth. Gland is pasty, inflexible, over her skin is rather pale. For the disease must be careful in terms of its complications (the virus can spread to the pancreas, brain and testes in men) and high infectivity. Pain can absorb yourself stoking lukewarm tiles. Necessary is bed rest, sometimes even hospitalization.

But other parotitis than mumps. Some swelling in inflammation may be filled with pus. In addition to inflammation, the physician must distinguish cancerous growths. In cancers are “swollen” rather only one party, and swelling, which in this case is formed by tumor cells, not painful (except for advanced forms of cancer). On palpation is soft, elastic and agile against the base in benign ( “good”) tumors, while stiffer and close to the neighborhood (or fixed) in malignant tumors.

Most tumors of this area is fortunately benign and can be well removed.