My son was having severe stomach pain and after sonography has been diagnosed with enlarged right iliac fossa lymph nodes (reactive). What does it means. Is it life threatening. Does my child needs hospitalisation. What medicine needs to be taken. Please indicate. Last year in January 2017 he was operated for appendicitis.

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