Need Help on son!

I have a 12 yr old boy that has swollen lymph nodes in his neck, groin and occationally swell up in the arm pit. It started when he had strep in 2008 for 3 months and they took out his tonsils then 2009 they took out a 2cm node out of left side of nlight neck. Then 2011 they went into take out a lymph node on the right and got salivary galnd.  Then in 2012 they took out another node on left side neck 2cm almond shape.  He has had several blood tests and scans and all within normal range and biopsy are normal.  He still has 2 enlarged nodes on right side and 1 in groin. He is at 76 pounds, 58 inches. Fatigue everyday, diahrea every time he eats and pain across stomach by the diaphram, light night sweats, headaches, itchy skin, weird rashes that pop up that looks like poison ivy or mosquito bites, and the enlarged lymph nodes. He has had upper/lower scope, CT of head and neck, ultra sounds, xrays, biopsies, and lots of bloodwork. Only thing that has come up is an atypical lymphocyte slide.  Can anyone help me fix my son????


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Has he been tested for Lyme and Babesia yet?  Lyme is known to cause those symptoms, including the chronically swollen lymph nodes.  Babesia is a fairly common coinfection of Lyme. It is a parasite that is related to malaria, only it can cause illness at a low level of infection, making it hard to find in blood tests.  Night sweats are a classic sign of Babesia.

An LLMD (Lyme Literate Medical Doctor) who knows these diseases well can diagnose and treat them properly.  There is not a lot of Lyme where you are, but ut us present. Unfortunately, most doctors don't recognize the symptoms without a bulls eye rash and sore knees. (I had neither.)