Lump on back of infant's neck

My 3 mo DS has this hard lump towards the bottom of his neck, right side.
It kind of feels like those fatty deposits dogs get (our 1 dog has several
of them so I know what they feel like). DH feels it's caused from DS always
having his head turned to the right when he sleeps and feeds. He thinks
maybe it's the muscle all knotted up. Any thoughts?

"ChitaShines" wrote in message
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My 3 mo DS has this hard lump towards the bottom of his neck, right side.
It kind of feels like those fatty deposits dogs get (our 1 dog has several
of them so I know what they feel like). DH feels it's caused from DS
always having his head turned to the right when he sleeps and feeds. He
thinks maybe it's the muscle all knotted up. Any thoughts?

I don't know what dogs get. Maybe a lymph node is inflamed? DS's lymph
node gets inflamed when he gets an infection. Of course, one time I had an
inflamed lymph node, the doctor said something, I didn't catch it all; but I
did catch the part where she said blah-blah-blah was okay otherwise they'd
have to rule out cancer. What a thought. Anyway, it did turn out okay.

"ChitaShines" wrote in message
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My 3 mo DS has this hard lump towards the bottom of his neck, right side.
It kind of feels like those fatty deposits dogs get (our 1 dog has several
of them so I know what they feel like). DH feels it's caused from DS
always having his head turned to the right when he sleeps and feeds. He
thinks maybe it's the muscle all knotted up. Any thoughts?

Can he lift his head up straight at all? If not, it could be muscles. You
might want to ask your ped about infant toriticollis next time you see
him/her. I thought Ben had it. You can gently work with him to get his
head to tilt the other direction sometimes too. It might also just be the
shape of his head. Brock looked like he has muscle knots but now that he is
a little older you can tell it is just the shape.


--
Nikki, mama to
Hunter 4/99
Luke 4/01
Brock 4/06
Ben 4/06

ChitaShines wrote:
My 3 mo DS has this hard lump towards the bottom of his neck, right side.
It kind of feels like those fatty deposits dogs get (our 1 dog has several
of them so I know what they feel like). DH feels it's caused from DS always
having his head turned to the right when he sleeps and feeds. He thinks
maybe it's the muscle all knotted up. Any thoughts?


If your son always has his head in one postition, you need to correct
that, and make sure he is held and sleeps in many postitons. Otherwise
he could develop positional plagiocephaly:
http://www.kidshealth.org/parent/gro...iocephaly.html
Our son had it when we adopted him, as the foster care Mom always laid
him on his right side for the first month of his life. It can be hard
to correct. My son still has a bit of assemetry to his head. Look at
the top of your baby's head/skull and see if the skull is assemetric at
all. If not, you have caught it in time.

My son also had a small lump at the back of his neck on the right side.
I don't know if this was a lymph node as the doctor suspected or
because of the positional plagiocephaly. It eventually went away.

Good luck to you!

-L.

ChitaShines wrote:
My 3 mo DS has this hard lump towards the bottom of his neck, right side.
It kind of feels like those fatty deposits dogs get (our 1 dog has several
of them so I know what they feel like). DH feels it's caused from DS always
having his head turned to the right when he sleeps and feeds. He thinks
maybe it's the muscle all knotted up. Any thoughts?

Ds has a haematoma on the bottom right side of his neck. At first two
doctors diagnosed a cyst, but a scan showed it was a lump of bruised
muscle that was possibly caused by the use of a ventouse. It didn't
appear for a good 6 weeks after birth so by the time we noticed it it
was already causing him to sleep with his head the other way. We did
ask about this before we discovered the lump but were told some babies
favoured one side and not to worry. Of course we now know different but
by the time it was discovered it was too late.

This lump also caused his head to tilt to one side (torticollis) but
exercises and making him turn has mostly sorted hit out. The lump is
still there and he is now 15 mnths on, so it may need to be sorted?

I would deffo get it checked out. In Ds's case it was too late to
prevent the flat head and we certainly didn't intend on cramming is
head in a glorified helmet for 23 hrs a day for 3 months, so he will
always be slightly at odds. From the fron he looks fine but from the
side of back you can see the flat side and his ears do not match up.

This is his flat side, so actually it doesn't look too bad.

http://wwwibbles.co.uk/pics/main.php...&g2_itemId=314


This might be interesting:

http://www.torticolliskids.org/faq's.htm