Why enlarged lymph nodes in a child

Lymph nodes - the most important organs of the immune system. They first meet on their way of almost all foreign agents and are trying to prevent their penetration into the human body.

Instruction

1. It is quite natural that the lymph nodes are sensitive to many internal and external aggressive factors. Moreover, the increase of these bodies is the most natural reaction to such an impact. Lymph nodes are located in small groups around the human body, but in healthy people they can find no more than 3 groups in the form of small soft balls (cervical, axillary, inguinal).
2. The increase in the size of lymph nodes (usually the neck) often occurs in childhood. The reasons can be very different: numerous infectious diseases, Allergy, metabolic disorders, adverse environmental conditions, blood diseases, parasites, the quality and character of food and more. Children often suffer from various negative influences, since their immune system is just being formed and is not able to respond adequately to negative outside influence.
3. Search of reasons for the increase in lymph nodes in a child, begin with the advice of a pediatrician and clinical analyses of urine and feces. In cases of obscure or unusual the local growth of the lymph nodes careful and detailed examination of the condition of the baby. Remember that enlarged lymph nodes – not an independent disease, as a separate symptom. Therefore, all efforts need to focus on identifying the underlying disease and its treatment.