Symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis in children?

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Rheumatoid arthritis is not the patent of the middle-aged and elderly groups. Many children are also patients with rheumatoid arthritis. In fact, rheumatoid arthritis belongs to a chronic immune disease. Now there is no particularly good treatment. What we can only do is to relieve it, and there is no way to completely cure it. The following mainly introduces the main symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis in children.

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

In short, the above contents are the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis in children. If your child has these symptoms in life, it is likely to suffer from rheumatoid arthritis in children. At this time, in addition to doing a good job in keeping children warm, you still need to see a doctor in time for corresponding examination and treatment.