Juvenile arthritis or formerly called Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis (JRA) is described in children under the age of 16. The word ‘rheumatoid’ was dropped from the name because it is a misnomer giving people the idea that the disease process is much like the adult Rheumatoid Arthritis.

Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis is essentially an autoimmune disease. This is a syndrome whereby the body produces antibodies that attack its own joint tissues. Currently, medical researchers have not determined that exact cause of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. However, there are several theories as to how juvenile rheumatoid arthritis can happen.

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Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis: What Now, Old Peoples Disease Being Caught By Kids?

We all know that arthritis, inflammation of bone joints, is normally associated with an illness affecting people over the age of 50. Therefore it will come as a massive surprise to parents when their children are diagnosed with it. Even more surprising is the fact that approximately 300,000 children in the United States alone have some form of arthritis, and that we the public are totally unaware of this fact.

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Arthritis, an inflammation of bone joints, is generally characterized as an illness affecting people over the age of 50, so it can come as a great surprise to parents when their children are diagnosed with some form of it. What may be even more surprising is that roughly 300,000 children in the United States alone have arthritis, and the public is largely unaware of this fact.

The most common form of arthritis affecting children is named juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, affecting about 20% of those 300,000 children, and all parents should be educated on this debilitating disease in children. Doctors are not yet entirely sure what causes juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, but they believe that it is linked to autoimmune diseases, where white blood cells are unable to differentiate between normal and foreign cells.

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my daughter has been diagonsed since 5 yrs old, now she is 11yrs old. and has a fraternal twin sister.

Although this will abruptly change once they are teenagers, most children crave to be normal in that they want to do and have the experiences that all of the other kids they see having. So, when a child is diagnosed with early rheumatoid arthritis, one of the fears from both child and parent is that they would not be able to live a normal life. Children with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis can live a relatively normal life in many ways.

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