[Relapsing parotiditis: its etiopathology and treatment]

In this paper 85 cases of relapsing Parotiditis are presented, with the aim to ascertain the degree of accuracy provided by treatments with vitamin B complex, anti-inflammatory drugs or catchers of free radicals. Perusal of the bibliography and proposal of considering the malady divided in two stages. The first one would be characterized for metabolic alterations of the saccharoid cycle with scarce yielding of energy (ATP). Therefore failure of the Na/L bomb, which phenomenon is linked to an enzymatic protein deficiency and/or coenzyme of the B complex vitamins, being this condition provoked for a dietetic deficiencies, intestinal malabsorption due to alcoholic oedema, excessive expenditure of energy among drug-addicts, anemia, diabetes, etc. From this moment on appears the second stage--the inflammatory--with the whole metabolic and biochemical courtship of structural and functional irreversible damages.