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What Causes Hard Lump During Ear Infection In An Infant?
My 8 month old has a hard lump but slightly moveable behind her ear. She has an ear infection and has been on antibiotics for 5 days. I notice it once before when she was 3 months and her dr told me it was fine and a lymph node which can show up during illness or infection could that be what is happening now? Should I be worried?
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Fri, 14 Mar 2014
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hi,
from your description it looks like an enlarged lymph node.
lymph nodes get enlarged during infections, nothing to worry,
regards,
dr rajkishori godhi
from your description it looks like an enlarged lymph node.
lymph nodes get enlarged during infections, nothing to worry,
regards,
dr rajkishori godhi
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