Kail Lowry Reveals Her Son Rio Has a Lump That Was Misdiagnosed & Now Needs a Biopsy & Surgery: “I Have Mom Guilt”

Kail Lowry is opening up about a scary medical issue that her son is experiencing after being misdiagnosed by doctors.

The former Teen Mom star recently posted a photo of herself with her two-year-old son Rio (whom she shares with her ex-fiancé Elijah Scott) at the doctor while Rio received an ultrasound. The photo caused her followers to wonder why the toddler needed the ultrasound, and Kail revealed during the latest episode of her Coffee Convos podcast what was going on with her son.

Kail— who is the mother of six sons and one daughter— revealed that last year, Rio began to develop a lump above his belly button, which she (and apparently Rio’s doctor) assumed was a small hernia.

“I thought it was from the ISR swim lessons because he has to roll over and float on his back,” Kail said. “And so I thought the stress of that created this little lump that looked like a hernia.”

Although the doctor told Kail not to worry and that the lump would resolve on its own, she stated that the lump actually began to get worse recently.

“This year, over the past couple of weeks, I’ve noticed this protruding out of his abdomen,” she said. “And in the one, if you zoom in, it sort of looks discolored a little bit.”

Kail stated that she took Rio to the doctor, who told the ‘Teen Mom’ star that the lump was not a hernia after all. Rio underwent the ultrasound and Kail said she is now awaiting the doctor to give her the results. 

“On the chart thing I logged into, it says, ‘Reniform nodule in the area of interest consistent with lymph node. The differential includes granuloma or complex cyst. Neoplasia cannot be excluded,'” Kail told her co-host Lindsie Chrisley. “And neoplasia is a tumor. So that cannot be excluded. And obviously as a mom, the first thing [was] my stomach sunk and I was like, ‘What the f**k?'”

Neoplasia is an “abnormal mass of tissue that forms when cells grow and divide more than they should or do not die when they should. Neoplasms may be benign (not cancer) or malignant (cancer)… Also called tumor,” according to the website of the National Cancer Institute. 

Kail stated that the next step is for Rio to get a biopsy done on the lump and remove it.

“So that’s what we’re going to do,” she said. 

Kail advised her listeners to investigate deeper when it comes to medical issues.

“When it comes to your health, check everything out because I really thought it was a hernia this whole time and they told me it was going to resolve itself,” she said. “I didn’t ask for a second opinion….now I have mom guilt. The fact that neoplasia cannot be ruled out just freaked me out.”