Lymph nodes
They are round clusters connected to each other in the form of chains by vascular-like channels. These glands are an important part of the immune system’s work, surrounded by a connective tissue containing immune cells. White blood cells often produce proteins to fight viruses and microbes. Inflammation in the armpits and on both sides of the neck in addition to the presence of a group in the head and neck and testes.
Causes of swollen lymph nodes
The size of the natural lymph nodes as the size of the pea and once swelled and grown up, then it can be felt and touched. Here are a number of reasons for the swelling of the lymph nodes:
- Infections and infections: The main cause of swelling of the lymph nodes infection, which quickly bloom these glands to fight and eliminate and then return to normal size after a week of infection, there is a range of modern diseases that affect the scalp, which results in swelling of the lymph nodes, That the inflammation of the skin that affects the arm will cause swelling of the lymph nodes under the armpit.
- Cancer, lymphoma and leukemia: There is a group of cancer cells that have the ability to spread and reach the lymph nodes in the lymph nodes grow and multiply inside and cause enlargement, such as breast cancer spread to the lymph nodes under the armpit or spread throat cancer to the lymph nodes in the neck.
- Swelling in lymph nodes is a side effect of taking medications.
- Arthritis.
- May be the result of HIV infection.
- tuberculosis.
Treatment of swollen lymph nodes
The treatment of the lymph nodes depends primarily on the knowledge of the main cause of the swelling as if the result of a viral infection, then the treatment of inflammation return lymph nodes to its size after a week or two of the infection, and if the injury is caused by cancer in this case, Radiation or drugs or depends on the degree of injury and location.
Viral infection is common and if you are infected, there is no cause for concern. The period of swelling will not last more than two weeks. If you continue to do so, you will be over two weeks.
Swollen under the armpits
The swelling of people under their armpits makes them fearful and fear a lot because they believe they are infected with malignant diseases. God forbid, and this is the nature of the swelling that occurs in this area. There are many lymph nodes that fall under the armpits and its function is to purify the lymph from the harmful substances that are exposed to it and swell if attacked by the bacteria As a result of the ongoing haircut, the skin becomes inflamed, causing swelling under the armpit, and increasing the sweat secretion during the summer causes the infection of this area, which appears to be a tumor, and these things are far from the incidence of tumors. Tanih.