How to treat a sore lymph node on the neck

The treatment of inflammation simpaticski nodes in the neck starts with a diagnosis. Contact your physician or pediatrician (if the child got sick). Tell us when there was an increase in nodes which ailments accompany it, was there any contact with infectious patients. By palpation, the technician will install the node state: how it is flexible, movable, is painful. The greatest fear should cause dense inactive the lymph nodes, characteristic of hematological malignancies or cancer. That's why any self-treatment, especially heating, can only aggravate the disease.

Cause inflammation of the submandibular and cervical nodes, especially in children, can be a viral disease such as measles, rubella, infectious mononucleosis, lymphocytosis. Another possible cause of inflammatory processes ENT organs and oral cavity. If the process of increasing cervical nodes is accompanied by prolonged fever, weight loss, night sweating, then it may be a sign of tuberculosis, cancer.

If the inflammation occurs on the background of SARS, all therapeutic activities are assigned in order to eliminate the source of the disease. Patient appointed immunomodulatory drugs, receiving infusions of Echinacea. In acute course of the disease antibiotics the macrolides. Inflammation in the lymph nodes should go by itself. Receiving homeopathic remedies such as "Lymphomyosot"may accompany, but not replace drug therapy. In some cases the source of infection may be the mouth. Treatment to the dentist for her rehabilitation may be enough that the inflammation has passed.

If the reason for the increase in cervical and submandibular lymph nodes are unable to install within 3 weeks, the patient is assigned a diagnostic biopsy of the node. The histological findings are considered holistically, considering the entire clinical picture of the disease and data from other tests. How promptly and fully investigated inflammation depends on a favourable prognosis of the disease and adequacy of treatment.