Lump on ds neck.

[princessmel]

I've seen in the archives that there have been threads on this before but just wanted an opinion.

Ds (4yrs) woke up this morning complaining of a sore neck. We found a lump on the right side. Not really in line with his ear, a bit in front of it. Its about the size and shape of a sugared almond and not hard.
It hurts him when we touch it and he can't move his neck 100%. He seems ok in himself apart from this.

Should we take him to see an out of hours doctor?? Or wait till monday?

TIA

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Has he got a sore throat? Could be a swollen gland if his tonsils are up. There is a lot of it about at the moment. GP monday is what i would do, unless he became very unwell. HTH

Hi, I've spoken to a GP. I rang NHS direct, and he thinks the soreness and the lump are not connected.
He said the lump is just probably a gland and the neck ache is most likely to be Rye neck (cricked (sp) neck) which he may have got in the night. Something to do with a trapped nerve.

He said to show my GP the lump in the week if its still there.

Thanks

You will have to let us know how it goes as my son ahd huge lump on his neck which we thought was mumps but it turned out that he had scarlet fever which the dr didnt even notice.