What is an enlarged lymph node under the mouse
Many of us periodically feelarmpit formation of a small compaction. If it does not hurt, does not emit fluids, we simply ignore it. And after a week or two, the swelling disappears, and we forget about it. But all the same, what is it and is it worth worrying about it?
Under the skin of the armpit is located fatfiber that connects with the fiber of the neck. Directly in adipose tissue is a set of axillary lymph nodes. What role does the lymph node perform under the mouse? Its purpose is to filter the lymph flowing to the arm from the chest. Being an effector of the immune system, it helps protect our body from the invasion of foreign organisms. Lymph nodes clean lymph from alien bodies in it. With a large load, they increase in size. However, the lymph node can not grow infinitely under the mouse and, without coping with the load, passes the infection on.
The most common cause of inflammationlymph nodes or lymphadenitis is too much bacteria or viruses that attack the body. Once in the lymph, they are destroyed, reaching its nodes, but with a large flow of a part of the microorganisms settles right into them. In this case, pressing on the lymph node under the arm, you will feel pain.
Lymph node enlargement can be triggereda number of diseases. But in some diseases such formations are characteristic. For example, diseases caused by bacteria of the genus Yersinia are extremely dangerous infections that can lead to death. The most famous to us their representative was a plague, which took a huge number of lives in the Middle Ages. In half the cases, it proceeded in a bubonic form, the tumors in the lymph nodes reached the size of a chicken egg. This type of disease today is almost not found, but there are other varieties of these bacteria, also no less dangerous to health.
Among other causes that can cause inflammationlymph nodes by armpits - penetration of malignant cells into them. For axillary lymph nodes, neoplasms from the mammary glands are characterized. The risk group includes women after 40 years, so it is important as a preventive measure to examine yourself daily and feel the area of the breast for seals. Only so you can not miss the initial stage of the disease. After contacting a doctor, if it turns out that the formation of a malignant, axillary lymph nodes will be removed as a mandatory obstacle, as the first obstacle on the path of metastases.
Enlarged lymph nodes may be a complicationafter the transferred infectious diseases (usually in children). If, under pressure, the lymph node under the arm hurts, and along with it there are other signs: headache, high fever, or gradual increase from day to day - you have an occasion to visit the doctor. Determine the cause of the disease and appoint treatment in this case should the doctor.
Do not attempt to treat lymphaticnodes themselves, as its methods directly depend on the causes that cause inflammation. Only a doctor will be able to identify the main focus of inflammation and eliminate it, and then conduct treatment for lymphadenitis.
In acute lesions of lymph nodes are prescribedconservative methods: rest of sick organs, UHF procedures, application of dry heat to the affected areas. If the purulent process has begun, then the heating is not shown, and the treatment begins with the intake of antibiotics, which the doctor will choose, taking into account the characteristics of the disease.
One of the methods of treatment is to cheatinflamed knots with antibacterial agent, after which a dressing is applied with a tybonic or streptomycin ointment. If, in spite of the treatment, the affected node continues to increase in size, surgical intervention is used: the skin over the lymph node is cut, the pus follows, its subsequent separation becomes possible after the application of the drainage system. With chronic lymphadenitis, immunostimulating drugs are prescribed.
