Parotid gland abscess treatment in children?

Hospitalization: This is often treated with incision and drainage with accompanying intravenous antibiotics.

Infected cyst?: Certainly you can get an abscess of the parotid gland, which usually is a lymph node inside the gland that gets infected and then abscessed. But when you have a child with the issue, you need to consider that they have a cyst that was infected, namely a type 1 branchial cleft cyst. Alternatively, a lymphatic malformation that gets infected can do this. Consider seeing a pediatric ENT for this.