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question:i have a hard pea size red lump on my right side above the coller bone .i thought it was a nat bite its been there sicne middle of jhrruly i thought i would leave it thinking it would go but it has not it has got abit bigger it hurts when you toch it and it hurts around the coller bone and the si de of my neck
answer:It could be lymph node swelling..kindly show your gp and get an FNAC done..they will insert a needle and take tissue sample for diagnosing..get well soon
question:My mom suffers from high blood pressure but takes medication and that keeps her in check. From time to time it gets real high but not in a while. She was a 2 pack a day smoker but hasn,t smoked like that for almost 2 months but started back over a week ago having maybe 4 - 8 a day. Hasn'y smoked at all for a whole day and a half. She put a 21 mg patch on this a.m and her pressure is real high, like 184/119?? Is it from the patch?
answer:Hello, I understand your concern. Your mom probably had high blood pressure unknowingly to her before she started using the nicotine patch. Using it when you have high blood pressure will worsen your blood pressure. I advise you to talk to your physician about this. Warm regards
question:hello, i banged my left leg close enough to the shin a couple months back now and since it happened theres been a lump, for the first week or two there was bruising and sensitivity to touch that went around the 1st 2nd week but this lump has remained.
answer:Thanks for your question on Health Care Magic. I can understand your concern. Since you are having history of trauma on tibial bone, possibility of hematoma or callus formation is high. Any bone injury heals by either callus formation or hematoma formation. And it appears as rounded lump like swelling. So better to get done ultrasound examination of local part. If it is hematoma or callus then no need to worry. It will resolve by its own slowly. Hope I have solved your query. Wish you good health. Thanks.
question:I have had a hard lump on the left side of my groin for 2 years. When I first got it, I squeezed it, and it popped so hard, and all kinds of puss came out of it with blood. The doctor then told me it was an infected hair. It is purple in that area, and never really healed. Every once in a while it gets more swollen than usual, and when I squeeze it, it squirts blood out, but from a different opening that is further left than the purple knot. What is it?
answer:Hi! Good morning. I am Dr Shareef answering your query. Even though it requires a physical examnation of the groin area and the patient as a whole, from your history, it seems to be persistence of some kind of chronic infection in the area. If I were your doctor, after a physical examinaton, I would advise you for a complete blood count, ESR, VDRL test, Blood sugar test, an HIV and HbsAg test, gram staining and cuture sensitivity test of the discharge and a Mantoux test. If the reports of these investigations come out to be inconclusive, I would consider a biopsy of the tissue for a histopathology and the final line of management would depend on the reports. Till then, I would advise you not to fiddle with the lesion, and take proper care of it with regular dressings and a course of broad spectrum antibiotics with an anti inflammatory drug to be advised by the treating docotr for a possible symptomatic relief.I hope this information would help you in discussing with your family physician/treating doctor in further management of your problem. Please do not hesitate to ask in case of any further doubts.Thanks for choosing health care magic to clear doubts on your health problems. I wish you an early recovery. Dr Shareef
question:8 month old daughter with marble size lump in left labia. hard with a white head when squeezed, however nothing will come out. she is show very little discomfort and has no signs of infection. i.e fever or other rash. she has yellow mucus from the nose. and a little cough. but so do the rest of the family. please let me know if these cysts that I am reading about are also possible in babies. I read about a ovary needing to be put back in place and that freaked me out a little. please give me as much info as you can. knowledge is power.
answer:Hi.Thanks for an elucidate history.Your baby has two issues.1. lump from the labia add she is just 8 months old. This can be a dermoid hence not tender and has to be excised properly by a Surgeon. Do not squeeze at all.2.Yellow mucus from nose. This is infected and needs active treatment with an antibiotic and decongestant. In fact anyone in the family with yellow mucus should need treatment. Yellow is infection. I hope this answer helps you get a proper diagnosis and treatment.
question:I went to the doctors today because i have a hard painful lump under the skin next to my anus thats appeared over a few days. The doctor said it might be an abcess and prescribed me flucloxacillin. The lump is about an inch big and im wondering will go away with the antibiotics.
answer:HiThanks for posting your query on HCM.I appreciate your concern for the painful lump near the anus.The features are suggestive of a peri anal abscess.Usually antibiotics like Flucloxacillin is not going to be effective if the abscess has already being formed.It needs to be incised and drained by a surgeon under anesthesia, since the fact that most of the abscess occur because of a perianal fistula, so if found during the surgery every effort should be made to excise the fistula completely to prevent the recurrence of the abscess. Hope this answers your query.Wishing you a very good health/