What is the swollen lymph gland?

TB should be considered if pain-free lymph nodes appear, develop slowly over the month. The most common lymph nodes appear in the neck area.

Swollen (Photo: Youth)

Lymph nodes are enlarged nodes with round oval structure, scattered on the lymphatic lines and clumping in some areas such as the neck, armpits, and groin. It is made up of lymphatic tissue, producing lymphocytes and antibodies.

It is possible that for the same purposes as military military stations, it is the task of preventing, supporting, protecting the body and destroying pathogenic elements (viruses, bacteria .), or causing harm to each body area. The ganglion beam acts as obstacles, protecting the infection from spreading by purifying and proliferating the bacteria and foreign objects from the lymph.

Children and thin people can feel on the body (in the neck, groin) with small lymph nodes of less than 1 cm in diameter, painless, mobile and every time they feel palpable, but not large. One sees only one lymphadenopathy as a disease when: lymphadenopathy (more than 1 cm in diameter), lymph node swelling, or pain, or very hard. Pathological lymph nodes are in cases such as:

Common infections

This is the reaction nodule of a certain infection; may be in the ears, nose, throat. If the infection in the teeth, the neck lymph nodes are swollen, skin infections are in the arm, the axillary lymph nodes are swollen, when there are boils in the legs, the inguinal lymph nodes are swollen . These lymph nodes are swollen rapidly, not hard but have a certain tension and touch see pain. When taking antibiotics, there is less swelling and pain, the lymph nodes are smaller.

Tuberculosis

The palpitations are painless, developing slowly over the months, the density is soft and tight. Although tuberculosis can be found in many places, but most often the neck area; although only a few nodes were touched, they were actually clusters, but only the largest lymph nodes were felt; in the people used to be called music colon. Diagnosis is determined by lymph node biopsy, Mantoux reaction and tests for TB bacteria.

Cancer

Is the metastatic lymph node of a cancer in the head and neck area, or is a systemic lymphoma. The lymph nodes usually emerge slowly, starting from an unknown time, having very hard characteristics (hardening like stones), extending into the surrounding organization, sticking to the deep layers so it feels like having roots. , having legs, without pain does not cause discomfort. Elderly people should pay attention to early detection of this type of lymph nodes.

When the swollen lymph nodes are found, it is essential to find the disease that the lymph nodes have responded to. How to treat is depending on the case.

Dr. Vu Huong Van , Health & Life