Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis

The juvenile rheumatoid arthritis is a condition rheumatic that produces rigidity of varying degrees in one or more joints, joint pain with swelling and often wear bone. The average age of top of this disease is eight and a half years.

There are three types of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, the most common form is the oligoarticular that affects the knees, affecting the joints larger. The poliarticiular affects the joints smaller of the hands and feet. The systematic is a type of arthritis very severe, can affect the organs such as the heart, liver and lymph nodes.

This type of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis is more common in girls. It is important to note that while the insights of diagnosis of this condition are aimed at under 16 years of age, it also presents a very early ages as nine months, or 2 years. However affects children between 8 and 11 years.

Among the risk factors for this disease specialists indicate that these would relate primarily to family history of some kind of rheumatic disease. Many indications also indicate that the infants with varying levels of immunodeficiency, inadequate nutrition or contagion recurring, are at greater risk of getting the disease.

Among the symptoms include joint pain newspaper or constant for more than six weeks, rash and swelling of the skin, swelling and redness of one or more joints without having suffered previously some trauma. Also the variant of this condition of organic nature can bring signals such as fever or fever and nodules or nodes developed.

For the diagnosis of the disease there is no evidence, the doctor is based on the symptoms that presents a minor. It is very important to indicate that if this disease is not diagnosed and treated in time the commitment articulate becomes more extensive and progressive, with marked functional limitation and various aftermath.

Although the disease has no cure, there are treatments with non-steroidal anti as aspirin or ibuprofen, which is used to relieve the pain and reduce swelling. You can also use the antirheumatic of slow action and the corticosteroids.

It is also recommended exercises it helps to increase flexibility and to maintain the ideal body weight. A good rest also is necessary because the arthritis may cause weakness and muscle fatigue. A good diet to lose weight is ideal to alleviate the burden to the joints.

 

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