Causes of swollen lymph nodes in babies

The lymph nodes are located in our neck, which is a relatively important part and we should pay attention to them. Especially for children, if the lymph nodes are swollen, it will cause the neck to become larger. In severe cases, it will affect their daily life. Many times, because we don’t pay attention to it in our daily lives, we think that the swelling of the lymph nodes will be fine in a few days. We don’t take it seriously and by the time we discover the problem, it is too late and the situation is more serious.

Many people think that this lump is not a big deal if it does not hurt or itch. Indeed, a lump without symptoms often does not attract people's attention and attention. Only when the lump is accompanied by pain, redness, swelling, itching, and swollen lymph nodes in the neck, people think that it is time to go to the hospital for a check-up.

Causes of swollen lymph nodes in the neck

1. Infection: Acute infection caused by bacteria, viruses, rickettsia, etc., such as acute cellulitis, upper respiratory tract infection, infectious mononucleosis, scrub typhus, etc.; chronic infection: bacteria, fungi, worms, chlamydia, screwworm disease, filariasis, venereal granuloma, syphilis, AIDS, etc.

2. Tumors: malignant lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma; leukemia, acute lymphocytic leukemia, acute non-lymphocytic leukemia, chronic lymphocytic leukemia, chronic myeloid leukemia, plasma cell leukemia, etc.; plasma cell tumors, multiple myeloma, primary macroglobulinemia; tumor metastasis, gastric cancer, liver cancer, breast cancer, nasopharyngeal carcinoma, etc.; malignant histiocytosis.

3. Reactive hyperplasia: necrotizing hyperplastic lymphadenopathy; serum sickness and serum sickness-like reactions; allergic subsepsis; systemic lupus erythematosus, rheumatism, etc.

4. Histiocytosis and metabolic abnormalities: Langerhans histiocytosis (histiocytosis X): including Lew-Schönlein disease and eosinophilic granuloma of bone; lipid storage diseases: including sphingomyelinosis, also known as Niemann disease, and glucocerebrosidosis, also known as Gaucher disease; sarcoidosis.

Lymph node enlargement is quite common nowadays, and many of our friends have been affected by this disease, so we should pay more attention to it in our daily lives and not take it lightly. The above has introduced in detail the causes of swollen lymph nodes in babies. We should learn more about this common sense in our daily lives so that we will know how to deal with it when it occurs.