Mastoid nodes

Looks like

Small nodes on the bone behind the ear.

What it does

Filter lymph from the scalp above and behind the ear and the back of the ear.

Keeping it well

Swell with scalp infections, head lice and eczema, and in German measles. Usually harmless and they go down in weeks.

Related conditions

• African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness)
• Cat-scratch disease
• Head and neck cancer
• Mpox (monkeypox)
• Rubella (German measles)
• Thyroid cancer
• Tonsillitis & quinsy