Childhood Arthritis
Childhood Arthritis
Childhood Arthritis is known by another name Juvenile Arthritis, is a pediatric rheumatic disease, affecting individuals below the age of 16 years. Chronic and autoimmune disease. It causes pain, swelling, stiffness, and loss of motion. That means the immune system, which normally protects the body from foreign substances, attacks the body instead. The disease is idiopathic, which defines that no exact cause is known. Researchers believe juvenile arthritis may be triggered due to genetics, certain infections, and environmental factors.
Symptoms
- The most common symptoms of childhood Arthritis is pain, warmth, stiffness, and swelling of joint. Stiffness and swelling are likely to be more severe in the morning.
- Limping is another symptom that might indicate a particularly severe case of Childhood Arthritis Joint deformity: The joints may grow in an abnormal, asymmetrical way, causing deformities of bone.
- Skin rash on a child's arms and legs
- Fever, comes and go
- Reduced appetite
- Weight loss
- Anemia
OTHER SYMPTOMS DEPEND UPON THE TYPES OF JUVENILE ARTHRITIS:
- Systemic onset arthritis: Affects the whole body. Symptoms include high fever that often increase in the evenings and then may suddenly drop to normal. The spleen and lymph nodes might become enlarged. Many of the body's joints are affected by pain, swelling, and stiffness.
- Oligo-articular arthritis: Affects four or less than four joints, often the knee or ankle. Symptoms are pain, stiffness, or swelling in the joints. Severe condition causes inflammation of eyes. It starts between the ages of two and four years.
- Polyarticular arthritis: affects five or more joints and occurs between the age of 1 and 12 years.
- Enthesitis-related arthritis: is a form that often involves attachments of ligaments as well as the spine.
- Psoriatic arthritis: Strikes some children who have psoriasis (a scaly red rash that can start appearing behind the ears, on the eyelids, elbows, knees, or scalp).
Causes
It occurs due to malfunctioning of the Immune System, but what causes the malfunctioning is not known, means it's an autoimmune disease. It is considered that immune system get provoked due to combination of environmental changes or mutation in certain genes.
Ayurvedic View For The Cause Of Childhood Arthritis
Ayurveda, describes this disease occurs due to production of excessive Vata Dosha, defined under the Vyadhi Ama vata. Ama vata is a disease caused as a result of production of Ama (toxic accumulation as a result of reduced digestive activity and obstructed expulsion of foreign substances from the body) that results in joint and systemic symptoms together.
Risk Factors
- Age: Children from infancy to age of 16, rarely when babies are younger than 6 months old. Children from 2 to 3 years of age are at high risk
- Gender: Girls are at more risk than boys.
- Genetics: Children with a family history of the disease.
Complications
Juvenile arthritis differs from adult arthritis in a way that it causes harm to a child's still-growing bones and tissues. Though most of the children with the disease will do well in the long run, but inflammation of arthritis can have serious consequences for a child's growing body including:
- Overall growth is stunted.
- Bones may grow too short or too long.
- Problems in jaw (that may lead to dental problems, because it can be hard to brush and floss properly).
- Wearing away or destruction of joints.
- Inflammation of membranes surrounding the heart or lungs.
- Loss of vision as a result of chronic eye inflammation (uveitis)
- Risk of osteoarthritis and osteoporosis increases in adulthood
- Sudden hyperactivity of the immune system called macrophage-activation syndrome (but is extremely rare, potentially life-threatening problem that occurs only in systemic JIA).
Childhood Arthritis Care Pack
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