If eating rules your life; if you struggle with control of eating and weight; if you may be harming your health; you may have an eating disorder. An eating disorder is not an illness like measles. It is not something that you either HAVE OR DONâT HAVE.
In the case of the fetlock, the capsule extends out of the back of the actual joint and forms a pouch above the sesamoid bones behind the cannon bone. If this pouch of the joint capsule becomes thickened or distended, the resulting swelling on the back of the fetlock is known as an articular windgall. imagined as a sausage of fluid which envelopes the tendons as they run over the back of the fetlock.
In general, infections are the most common causes of lymph node enlargement. Other causes include inflammation and cancers. There is a wide variety of infections from a strep throat or ear infection, to mononucleosis or HIV infection, which can cause swelling of lymph nodes. Lymphoma and leukemia cause swelling of lymph nodes, and many cancers spread to lymph nodes. Rarely, a medication can cause swelling of a lymph node. Symptoms associated with lymph node swelling and related diseases can include pain in the area of the swelling, fever and fatigue.