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What Do Inflamed Cervical Glands Indicate?

My daughter aged 9 years has been having fever , loose stomach for the last month or so . It comes off and on. She has been swimming and eating school food. So I thot it was a stomach bug with the heat and weather conditions. However , today I showed her to a doctor and he said she had inflamed cervical glands and wud need treatment for at least 6 months and this can lead to tuberculosis and growth retardation . Pls advise.
Fri, 26 Sep 2014
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Hi thank you for choosing healthcare magic. What is the size of her cervical glands and since when she is having them and how is her appetite? If the size is less than one cm and her appetite is good it may not be tuberculosis, but as her treating physician has doubt regarding it she should get tested and only after the tests are positive should she be given TB medicines, there is no role of medicines in suspected TB after the screening and confirmatory tests are negative. If she only has cervical lymph nodes they it should be treated with antibiotics for ten days to see the response, if they decrease in size no need to de anything, if not then we have to do FNAC of the bland to rule out TB.
Hope this has been helpful to you, kindly feel free to contact again for any queries. Kindly rate the answer if so. Take care.
Dr J Sravanthi
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What Do Inflamed Cervical Glands Indicate?

Hi thank you for choosing healthcare magic. What is the size of her cervical glands and since when she is having them and how is her appetite? If the size is less than one cm and her appetite is good it may not be tuberculosis, but as her treating physician has doubt regarding it she should get tested and only after the tests are positive should she be given TB medicines, there is no role of medicines in suspected TB after the screening and confirmatory tests are negative. If she only has cervical lymph nodes they it should be treated with antibiotics for ten days to see the response, if they decrease in size no need to de anything, if not then we have to do FNAC of the bland to rule out TB. Hope this has been helpful to you, kindly feel free to contact again for any queries. Kindly rate the answer if so. Take care. Dr J Sravanthi