Common areas where you might notice swollen lymph nodes include your neck, under your chin, in your armpits and in your groin. In some cases, the passage of time and warm compresses may be all you need to treat swollen lymph nodes. Treatment of lymphadenitis depends on the cause.
A reporter holds a traditional Arab men's robe found in a hut at a farm where U.S. soldiers captured former Iraqi lerader Saddam Hussein, in Adwar, 15 kilometers, 10 miles from Saddam's home town of Tikrit, Iraq Monday, Dec 15 2003.
This is how Minira Abdul Qader remembers the events of March 16, 1988, in Halabja, a small town on Iraq's northeastern border with Iran. She was 10, and a witness to the largest chemical-weapons attack on civilians in history. The civilians happened to be Kurds, Iraqi dictator Saddam Husseinâs enemies. He had ordered his forces to drop gas on the city, then inhabited by 45,000 Kurds. âWe took refuge in the basement,â Qader recalled from her house in Halabja, âbut when jets came again at night we decided to flee the city, like everybody else.