Early symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis in children?

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Rheumatoid arthritis usually occurs in elderly people, but in recent years, many children have been diagnosed with this kind of disease. Are you as shocked as I am when you hear this news? Now this is a real situation. So what kind of performance will children have after getting rheumatoid arthritis? Now let's talk about it.

Early symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis in children?

Polyarthrosis: common in school-age children. It is characterized by progressive multiple arthritis followed by joint destruction. Arthritis can develop from one side to the opposite side, from small joints to large joints, first swimming, and then fixed symmetrically. During the attack, there were swelling, pain, limited movement, and repeated deformity and ankylosis of the joints. The general symptoms were mild.

Less joint type: often involving a single or less than four joints, mainly large joints, no serious joint dysfunction, mild systemic symptoms, a few children with iridocyclitis.

Systemic type (still disease) is more common in children. Fever is the main symptom of this type. It can last for several weeks or months, but it is easy to recur. With a transient pleomorphic skin rash, often with temperature rise and fall and sometimes appear. The joint symptoms were mild, and some patients developed multiple macroarthritis in the later stage. Most of them had enlargement of liver, spleen and lymph nodes. Pleura, pericardium or myocardium may be involved.

matters needing attention

Rheumatoid arthritis in children after the onset of the performance is so much. It is very difficult to cure rheumatoid arthritis after its onset, and if the disease is not treated in time, it may accompany the child's life. So for the sake of children's health, we still need to prevent rheumatoid arthritis.