What Is Juvenile Chronic Arthritis?

Juvenile chronic arthritis

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Adolescent chronic arthritis, the name of the illness. The disease is hereditary. A viral infection can cause the disease.

There are three types of the disease: less arthritis type: affecting four or fewer large joints, such as the knee joint. Polyarthritis: mainly affects small joints, such as joints of hands and feet. Systemic type: mainly affects small joints and causes systemic symptoms.
The etiology of the disease is unknown at this time, but it has been identified that the disease is hereditary. Viral infections can cause the disease, but it is unclear what virus is.
The symptoms of this disease are:
1. Joint pain, redness, swelling and stiffness.
2. If the lower limbs are affected, lameness will occur.
3. Polyarthritis type with mild fever.
With systemic arthritis, the following symptoms can appear several weeks after onset:
1. Body temperature is above 39 ° C.
2. Swelling of lymph nodes throughout the body.
3. Blister-like, no itchy rash.
In some cases, it is accompanied by iritis.
The most important method in treatment is physical therapy to maintain muscle strength and joint mobility. Children are required to wear splints at night to prevent joint deformation, and sometimes during the day, children are also required to install splints to rest the joints. Your doctor will also prescribe aspirin or non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs to reduce pain and swelling. In very severe cases, doctors need to perform surgery on the sick child, replace damaged and painful joints, or extend deformed muscles. After treatment, one third of the children can fully recover, another third of the children will have symptoms for several years, and the other one third of the sick children will get worse.