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Inflammation of the Lymphatic Vessels (Lymphangitis)
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Also known as: lymphangitis · lymph vessel inflammation · red streak · blood poisoning streak · lymphatic vessel infection · red line on the arm · lymph inflammation · lymphatic channel infection · inflammation of the lymphatic vessels
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A red streak runs across your skin — hot, painful, like a visible trail of something simmering beneath the surface. The lymphatic vessels, normally invisible channels that cleanse and protect your body, are inflamed. Medically, lymphangitis usually arises from an infection spreading along the lymphatic pathways. The body responds with heat, swelling, tenderness — sometimes with fever, sometimes with a throbbing intensity.
But why here? Why now? Why does the very system whose task it is to keep the flow going — transporting the old away and letting the new through — become inflamed?
The psychosomatic perspective poses an uncomfortable question: What in you is under so much pressure that it has become inflamed, because it finds no other way out?
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