Juvenile Recurrent Parotitis

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To the Editor: Juvenile recurrent parotitis (JRP) is a rare, recurrent non-obstructive, and non-suppurative parotid inflammation having a multifactorial etiology. Many causative factors such as allergy, infection, local autoimmune manifestations and genetic inheritance have been suggested, but none have been proved [1, 2]. MR sailography has become the modality of investigation in recent times [1‐3]. Treatment is mostly conservative with analgesics, attention to good oral hygiene, massage of the parotid gland, warmth, use of chewing gum and sialogogic agents. However aggressive interventions in the form of sialendoscopy and surgical management are resorted to in cases of persistent and recurrent symptoms [3, 4]. …