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After a trip to the ER and several follow-up visits while doctors worked on a diagnosis that turned out to be parotitis, an infection of the glands, Chandler’s bills reached $1,300.

As a pediatrician, I see a case of parotitis, or inflammation of the parotid gland, about once a year.

The condition has a number of symptoms — including fever, muscle aches, fatigue and the swelling of one or both of the salivary glands, called parotitis.

Instances have been reported of double parotitis, and in several of them the termination of the attack was fatal.

The most common sequel� arising from the disease are thrombosis of a vein, usually in the thigh; bronchitis; one-sided parotitis; outbreaks of boils and superficial abscesses; and more occasionally heart weakness and disease of bone.