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The main symptom of parotitis is swelling of the parotid glands, but there are other symptoms that may indicate parotitis.

In 1954 Bonnin et al. 6 reported similar swelling of the parotid glands in 80 per cent of 173 cases of alcoholism with histologic changes in the liver, most of which had progressed to cirrhosis.

Initially, not all salivary glands were thought to be impaired while those glands that demonstrated damage seemed to heal spontaneously without further subjective and objective symptomatology.