Consultation juvenile rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic disease that affects the joints, inflaming them and intercede directly in the patient’s motor activities. Its origin is unknown, so there is currently no cure, only a medical treatment based on improving the quality of life of patients.

The percentage of patients with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis in Spain is less than 1% mostly affecting girls and women between 0 and 18 years of age.

although unaware of the roots of rheumatoid arthritis, today you cannot say that there is a key genetic component in the development of its evolution. Nor does the existence of allergies, toxins, bacteria or lack of vitamins, there is evidence that has to do with the existence of the disease.

The nature of rheumatoid arthritis is immune and therefore is still very difficult to find ‘that’ development resulting in patients. Another factor to investigate is why it occurs in individuals under 20 and 30 years in the same way that affects mostly women and not men.

Symptoms of arthritis are primarily stiffness in the joints, especially hands and feet, swelling of the same, especially in the early hours of the day, and pain that can range from mild to moderate and even severe depending on the patient and how to respond to treatment.

Factors such as age, build, own metabolism, weight, and many others, will influence how the treatment a patient receives and responds positively to it. Early diagnosis and treatment supervised by a professional and properly put into practice by the patient are the foundations of disease control.

Arthritis, osteoarthritis is not
It is very common to confuse the popular level, rheumatoid arthritis osteoarthritis, because both diseases affect the bones and joints, but they are far from each other in the development of the disease, prognosis and affected body parts.

It is true that both share the symptoms, the two diseases are therefore rheumatic branch. However, arthritis is a chronic, treatment-controlled and not has to get worse if you follow the guidelines issued by the specialist.

Osteoarthritis, unlike arthritis, degenerative if implying that over time, longer than the short term, if the patient may experience a setback in his illness by going their quality of life for the worse.