What are the symptoms of rheumatic fever in children and juvenile rheumatoid arthritis?

Rheumatoid arthritis causes pain and suffering for many adults, so many people want to treat it. In fact, rheumatoid arthritis not only occurs in adults, but also in many children. This should be something that everyone doesn’t know, so what are the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis in young children? Now let me tell you!

Symptoms of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis vary, but the main symptoms are:

1. Fever. Most occur slowly, while a few appear suddenly. It can be irregular low-grade fever, or continuous high fever or intermittent high fever. The fever may subside on its own after several weeks to months, but it is easy to recur.

2. Rash. During the fever period, about 1/5 of the children develop a rash with varying shapes. Most are small maculopapular rashes, and a few present as nodular erythema with a dark ring-shaped erythema in the center. They can spread throughout the body and occasionally cause itching. The rash often disappears quickly but may reappear with fever.

3. Joint swelling and pain are common symptoms, which often occur weeks or months after fever. They often first affect the knee and ankle joints, and may later develop to the wrist, elbow, shoulder, cervical spine and other joints. Most of them are bilaterally symmetrical, and some children have migratory disease. In addition, some children may also suffer from anemia, pericarditis, myocarditis, pleurisy, pneumonia, etc.

Treatment principles

(1) Early diagnosis and appropriate treatment can prevent the disease from progressing and causing irreversible changes in the heart.

(2) According to the severity of the disease, appropriate anti-rheumatic drugs are selected to prevent death of critically ill children, and symptoms of common diseases can be controlled in a timely manner to reduce the pain of children.

(3) Control and prevent group A β-hemolytic streptococcal infection and prevent recurrence of the disease.

(4) Rheumatic fever in children is a chronic disease with recurrent attacks. During repeated and long-term medication, attention should be paid to the occurrence of drug side effects, so the pros and cons should be weighed and the drugs should be used reasonably.

After reading the above explanation by the editor, I believe you already know the clinical manifestations of rheumatoid arthritis in young children! Whether it is an adult or a young child, it is extremely painful for them when the disease occurs, so the editor recommends that parents take their children to a regular hospital for treatment in time to avoid affecting their children's future.