Diseases

Childhood Arthritis

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Childhood arthritis is known by another name juvenile arthritis, is a pediatric rheumatic disease, affecting individuals below the age 16 years.

Rheumatoid arthritis : it is a psychosomatic disease which is also of autoimmune origin .The Essential feature of an autoimmune disease is that tissue injury is caused by the immunologic reaction of the organism with its own tissues .
Rheumatoid arthritis is one of the commonest joint disorders with varied clinical sign and symptoms involving multiple joints at various sites . In version 2 estimates for the global burden of diseases 2000 study , published in the world health report 2002 , rheumatoid arthritis is the leading cause of ylds (years lived with disability) at global level , accounting for 0.8% of total global yld .The Disease has shown to put an enormous economic burden on society .

SYMPTOMS

Pain, swelling, stiffness and loss of motion. That means the immune system , which normally protects the body from foreign substances, attacks the body instead.