Rheumatic symptoms in children?

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Juvenile idiopathic arthritis, formerly known as juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, is a common connective tissue disease in children. It is characterized by symmetrical chronic inflammation of multiple joints, accompanied by autoimmune diseases involving multiple systems of the whole body. It is also a common cause of children's disability. Rheumatic symptoms in children? Let's talk about it.

Rheumatic symptoms in children?

1. Fever mostly occurs slowly and a few suddenly, which can be irregular low fever, persistent high fever or intermittent high fever. Fever can relieve itself after several weeks to months, but it is easy to recur.

2. During the period of rash fever, about 1 / 5 of the children have rashes with different shapes, most of them are small macular papules, and a few show nodular erythema with dark ring erythema in the center, which can spread all over the body and occasionally itch. The rash often disappears quickly, but it can reappear with fever.

3. Joint swelling and pain often occur in a few weeks or months after fever. At the beginning, it often invades the knee and wrist joint first, and then it can develop to elbow, ankle, shoulder, cervical and other joints. Most of them are bilateral symmetry, and some of them are wandering. Arthritis often presents as symmetrical swelling, tenderness and morning stiffness. The most common joint deformities are ankylosis of wrist joint, subluxation of metacarpophalangeal joint and swan neck deformity of fingers.

matters needing attention

Pay attention to rest, proper nutrition, can use physical therapy. Exercise should be carried out step by step, first passively, then actively. To avoid excessive fatigue and aggravate joint pain.