Pediatric lymph node swelling, consider and lymphadenitis, mainly due to bacterial or viral infection caused by a kind of lymph node inflammation, can cooperate with the doctor to give physical methods, oral medication, home care and other ways to improve.
1. Physical methods: when children have lymph node swelling, you can use a towel wrapped in ice to apply cold compresses to the local area, which can effectively promote local vasoconstriction, improve local swelling, and also relieve pain.
2. Oral medication: If the pediatric lymph node swelling is caused by bacterial infection, you can cooperate with the doctor to give amoxicillin, cefixime and other anti-infective drugs, can inhibit the body inflammation, relieve the condition. If the viral infection is caused, you can follow the doctor’s instructions to take antiviral drugs, such as acyclovir, ribavirin and so on.
3. Family care: During the period of illness, children should be given more warm water to drink, avoid eating spicy and irritating food, such as chili peppers, pepper, etc., so as not to stimulate the condition, resulting in aggravation.
If the child’s symptoms are serious, the lymph nodes persistently increase in size, or the symptoms do not improve, should promptly go to the hospital for treatment.