Enlarged lymph nodes need to be seen in the relevant department depending on the symptoms and cause. Lymph node enlargement is a clinical disease and symptom, not just a disease.
1. General Surgery: If the patient has abdominal pain, fever, vomiting and other symptoms, the physician will consider mesenteric lymphadenitis and other abdominal infections, and will need to consult the General Surgery Department or the Department of Gastroenterology for the appropriate examination. For swollen lymph nodes in the axilla and neck, general surgery is also needed.
2. Infectious diseases: If the patient has boils on the skin, fever and other manifestations, the patient needs to consult the Department of Infectious Diseases for examination and treatment.
3. Hematology: If the patient has unexplained fever, anemia, recurrent infections, etc., the physician will consider leukemia, lymphoma, aplastic anemia and other blood system diseases, and need to consult the hematology department for examination.
4. Oncology: if the patient has unexplained emaciation, irritating cough, abdominal pain, enlarged lymph nodes in the clavicle, etc., the physician will consider the lymphatic metastasis of lung cancer and other malignant tumors, and the patient needs to consult oncology department for the corresponding examination, or go to the relevant surgical department for consultation.
5. Department of Infectious Diseases: If the patient has low fever, fatigue, night sweating (sweating abnormally after going to sleep but stops after waking up), emaciation, etc., the physician will consider that it is caused by tuberculosis, and the patient needs to consult the Department of Infectious Diseases.
Patients with enlarged lymph nodes need to go to a regular hospital, the doctor examined by the appropriate departments for treatment, they can not be randomly used drugs.