hello and welcome to health care magic, I am Dr Sriram Nathan an ENT surgeon and I will try to help you out with your problem Parotid gland swelling are common and in most of the cases benign so you have nothing to worry about. However you can do these to ease your symptoms - complete your antibiotics course - take lots of water and hydrate yourself properly - the swollen areas of the gland could be infected tissue which have got enlarged, these will get better in a couple of weeks or so but do not press on them - the headache could be directly related to the parotid infection and I am sure will settle once the parotid infection gets better -apply hit fomentation over the area so that it will resolve faster -do not try to milk the gland as it will not help much in parotid. The milking would have helped if the swelling was in the submandibular glands. It is the same reason why your saliva is not yucky as you said. With the above you should get better in a week or two! however if the symptoms do not improve then you may consider these: - if you are getting recurrent swelling and if the swelling does not subside then your next course of action is to take an FNAC examination along with a CT of the parotid and get back to me or any ENT with the reports. -since parotid is not a common site for stones it is unlikely that what you are feeling is stones but in any case if the symptoms do not resolve then the above investigations could easily reach on a diagnosis Hope this helps and hope you get well soon If you are still having any more doubts then I will be be glad to answer them regards Dr Sriram Nathan -

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