The common symptoms of rheumatic immune diseases in children include fever, rash and other common manifestations, as well as joint muscle diseases, such as joint pain, arthritis, muscle injury, myalgia and myasthenia.
Due to the characteristics of children's immune system development, children's rheumatic immune diseases are more complicated than adults, including a series of diseases involving multiple systems caused by immune deficiency, autoimmunity, severe allergy and inflammatory reaction. Zhang Pingping said that children's common rheumatic immune diseases often include adolescent idiopathic arthritis, adolescent ankylosing spondylitis, systemic lupus erythematosus, systemic vasculitis, Sjogren's syndrome, juvenile dermatomyositis, systemic sclerosis, mixed connective tissue disease, reactive arthritis and immunodeficiency.
Children with rheumatism will also have the pain of wandering, which many children can't stand. When children have symptoms of rheumatism, they should be diagnosed by doctors in time and not treated blindly. So, how to protect children from rheumatism? Let's explain to parents and friends the problems that children should pay attention to when they are diagnosed with rheumatism:
1. As a patient, we should listen to the doctor's instructions carefully, give our children enough care in diet and life, give them nutritious food, supplement multivitamins, give them psychological treatment, relieve mental stress and take medicine on time.
2. Salicylic acid preparations commonly used in rheumatic activities often have gastrointestinal reactions, such as nausea, vomiting and even gastrointestinal bleeding. To reduce the reaction, enteric-coated tablets can be used or taken after meals.
3. After the body temperature is normal, the joint symptoms disappear and the ESR is normal, you can gradually resume your activities, which usually takes 3-6 months. But if you have a serious heart disease, you should strictly follow the doctor's advice.
4. If there are any side effects, please reduce or stop using drugs according to the doctor's advice.
The course of rheumatism is very long. Parents should give their children medicine on time, go to the hospital regularly for examination, and resume their studies according to the doctor's examination results.
What's the difference between rheumatism in children and rheumatism in adults?
If we mention senile rheumatism, we may think of the symptoms of rain, dampness, backache and leg pain. So what's the difference between childhood rheumatism and adult rheumatism? In fact, children's rheumatism and adult rheumatism belong to the same category, but adult rheumatism and children's rheumatism have their own characteristics.
In most cases, rheumatism in children is related to polygenic inheritance, and a few are related to monogenic inheritance. In most polygenic children, the incidence of rheumatism has no clear genetic marker, but it usually has a certain familial inheritance. For example, the more families with this disease, the more children there are. There are some single-gene rheumatic immune diseases that can be diagnosed by testing. In the near future, when newborns are born, some children with potential risks can be found through umbilical cord blood screening, and then they can be prevented early.
Because the condition of children's rheumatism is quite complicated, all children need to go to relevant specialties for identification and long-term chronic disease management, so parents must treat them in time when they find abnormalities, such as adolescent idiopathic arthritis that needs attention. Among them, systemic juvenile rheumatoid is mainly characterized by long-term repeated high fever (more than two weeks), and children are listless when they have a fever. At the same time, we should attach great importance to rash and hepatosplenomegaly. In addition, ANA (antinuclear antibody) is also a very important indicator. If ANA is positive, you should find an expert for screening in time.