Parotitis induced by chlormethiazole.

Chlormethiazole is a sedative and hypnotic that is widely used in treating and preventing symptoms of acute alcohol withdrawal.1 We describe a case of bilateral parotitis after chlormethiazole treatment. A 48 year old man presented with a history of epigastric pain and haematemesis for three days. He had regularly drunk 300 g ethanol a day in the previous year, mainly in …