Definition and Causes
Children may suffer the same kind of arthritis as adults, while children arthritis (Stills disease / Juventil arthritis) is a disease that only affects children. Children Arthritis occurs because of an abnormal response in the body’s immune response, reflected by inflammation in one or more joints and cause pain and swelling.

children arthritis

children arthritis

The cause of rheumatic children is unknown, but sometimes several members in a family affected, suggesting a degree of heritability. It may be that external factors such as a virus infection also play a role.

Children Arthritis occurs in various degrees, and if a child is only affected by arthritis in mild degree, it will often be able to continue normally with his everyday activities. In severe cases of rheumatic children child will both develop deformed joints and be hampered in its movement.

Different types of rheumatic children
Children Arthritis parts into three types according to how many joints are affected by the disease and what specific symptoms occur.

Up to four infested part
This is the most common form of children’s arthritis and it most often affects girls under school age. Symptoms include inflammation, stiffness and pain in up to four parts and there is a risk that the child develops eye disease Duvets. Typically, joints in the knees, ankles and wrists suffering from gout. Most of the time elapsed from this form of child mildly arthritic and will in part go by itself after a few years. In other spreads the disease itself, unfortunately for other joints, and here a more intensive treatment may be necessary.



More infested part
Also this form of child arthritis most often affects girls, and even seen both in children under school age and in older children. Symptoms include inflammation, stiffness and pain in at least five joints. Here, both small and large joints to be affected, including fingers, wrists, knees and ankles.

Other
There are several other forms of child arthritis, where both girls and boys are affected equally frequently and where in addition to inflammation, swelling and pain in joints also appear swollen glands, fever and rash. In the worst cases of these variations of the disease there will be no lasting change in the child’s body.

What can be done?
If there is suspicion that your child has one of the above types of children’s arthritis, your doctor will probably recommend that the child affected part becomes X-rayed, and that there will be blood tests to see if there is specific antibodies present, also characterizes the disease.

Since there are several different types of rheumatic children, it is important that the child is examined by doctors with the necessary expertise, so it can subsequently get the just the treatment that works best in exactly the case.

The goal of treatment is to reduce inflammation, minimize damage to joints and relieve the child’s pain. In severe cases it may be necessary to deal with stronger arthritis medicines such as cortisone preparations or similar.

Rheumatic Children should also be treated with physiotherapy to maintain mobility and muscle strength ledenes minimized. Warm Water Exercise is for example very suitable.

Children Arthritis may disappear completely after a period of years, but children with more severe degrees of disease may have but in terms of deformed part, and some arthritis continues to be present even in adulthood.

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