Download Preauricular Lymph Node Swelling Causes Background. Lymph nodes tend to swell and can cause other symptoms like fever, inflammation, pain and tiredness. Sometimes this can be subclinical which means you have an infection but not sufficiently to cause other symptoms or disease.
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Swelling of the neck lymph nodes usually arises with conditions, particularly infections, in and around the neck area. Infection would be the most common cause of swollen lymph nodes. In the process, they can become enlarged.
And treatments vary for the specific cause of it.
Some people use the term swollen glands to refer to swollen lymph nodes, especially. Swollen lymph nodes are often a sign that your body is fighting infection. I think that your doctor would have looked at the size of the gland in deciding whether to investigate it further. Infection would be the most common cause of swollen lymph nodes.
