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is it common to get tender swollen jaw nodes with sinus and head cold?

This is not uncommon.

The nodes you describe are lymph nodes and part of the body’s immune system. As the body fights off infection, lymph nodes swell as white blood cells gather.

This is both a sign of infection in the body as well as an indication that the body is responding to the infection.

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