Bacterial parotiditis in two neonates

ABSTRACT

The authors report two cases of neonatal parotitis which is a rare infection in newborns and has been reported less than 120 times in world literature. Neonatal bacterial parotitis is commonly represented with fever and swelling and erythema in the preauricular area. The treatment requires appropriate use of antibiotics for 7-1 0 days. Our patients were a 16 day old boy who was presented with fever, poor feeding, swelling, redness, induration and tenderness of left preauricuiar region and a 10 day old girl who admitted due to fever, restlessness, swelling and erythema of left external auricular region. Both of them were treated successfully with parenteral antibiotics for 7 days which were followed by oral antibiotics