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Originally Posted by buckwheat
Hi Folks,
Does anyone have any swelling in the back of the neck where the nape area is?
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The swelling back there is often connected with dyslipidemia.
It can come with age as well and genetics.
The fat pad back there is brown fat, which we store for
starvation. (there are two types of fat storage, brown and yellow.)
There are lymph nodes that go up the neck from the nape, on both sides.
They can become infected/swollen if something is going on in the scalp.
I have seen them enlarge when kids have head lice. Ringworm may also do it. Or a staph infection in a hair follicle.
Sometimes some drugs, or illnesses like Cushing's syndrome, can cause a fat pad back there.
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