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Suggest Treatment For Swollen Lymph Nodes In The Neck And Pain

Posted on Thu, 20 Jul 2017

Question: I've been fighting off a "cold" for like a month, it won't go away, I thought it was just a normal cold but medicine hasn't touched it at all the entire time, my lymph nodes on both sides of my neck are hella swollen and tender to the touch and like you can visibly see that they're swollen, and I woke the other day with a sharp pain in my throat and it hurts to even breathe, and the outside of my neck is red in patches and itchy but also hurts really bad like the skin hurts and is red and rashy/scaly, where my lymph nodes are all the way down to almost my collar bone but only on the sides, the middle of my neck is white and the back and stuff is fine but it looks like my neck is a striped candy cane with redness

Answered by Dr. Priyanka Aggarwal (1 hour later)

Brief Answer:
Sore throat

Detailed Answer:
Hi
Welcome to Healthcare Magic and thanks for putting up the query
You are probably having tonsillitis or some other bacterial infection.
Please send me the pictures of your throat and neck swellings.
Also tell me do you have any fever or difficulty in swallowing?
Any swellings in axilla?
For how long are you having cough?
What medicines have you been taking so far?
Follow up with the required information so that i can suggest you better.
Take care
Thanks and regards

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Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Remy Koshy