Toddler tonsils

[Lockdownbaby2021]

I noticed My nearly 4 year old had some swelling on one side of his neck for the last 2 weeks and not eating as much. He never complained of a sore throat etc but recently he’s been saying he’s really tired through the day.
took him to docs to get him checked over and she said his throat was red and so was his ear. It surprised me as he’s not complained about either of them hurting and he can communicate well. He’s been on antibiotics for 3 days now but just looked in his throat and unsure if this looks normal or not? I’m sure his tonsils seem really large ? Does anyone know if this looks normal or not ?

I know he's young, but tired plus sore throat sounds like it could be glandular fever/EBV. Children do sometimes have the same symptoms as teenagers. Might be worth asking your GP to do a throat swab?

@OtterMummy2024 this is the thing, he’s not complained of a sore throat, the only reason we took him was because I found a lump on his neck from pictures I have taken of him. It’s really strange

Ah sorry, misunderstood. Another one to consider would be mumps - the MMR vaccine is very good for measles and rubella but weakest for mumps (99% protection against M&R but only 90% against mumps). I don't know whether it always looks as dramatic as the child in this photo?! I guess if your LO looked like this the GP would recognise it https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/mumps/symptoms/

Either way - if you're still worried/LO is still unwell, you could ask the GP to swab his throat to try and find out what it is.