BCG Adenitis
BCG vaccine is administered at or soon after birth in India today. This comes up about 6 weeks after the injection. As a reaction to this injection BCG, the nearest draining lymph nodes are the axillary (arm pit) or the supraclavicular(neck) may get infected and enlarge. The swelling, comes up within a maximum of 3 months of having taken the BCG injection. As long as there is no softening indicating a cold abscess - no intervention is required. A single anti tubercular drug is started for a period of 6 weeks.
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