Symptoms of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis include feeling intense pain in the joints which are accompanied by soreness or stiffness in the joints.  The diseased faces difficulty in walking, standing and in severe cases while sitting too.  The child starts limping and starts complaining of pain in different body joints especially in the weight bearing joints.

Hip, knee and neck are some of the joints where the pain is severe.  The appearance and disappearance of rashes on the body is considered to be one of the important symptoms of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. The rashes may appear on any part of the body.  High fever is also one of the important symptoms of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. Here the fever comes in the evening may also increase during the evening and in the later part of the day may suddenly disappear.

The reasons of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis are still not unclear, though the scientists attribute the cause to the inability of the body to identify the healthy cells from bacteria and viruses. The white blood cells which are mainly responsible for the identification fails to clearly distinguish the healthy cells from the non healthy ones instead they end up harming the healthy body cells.

The best way to treat juvenile rheumatoid arthritis is to identify the type of arthritis with one is suffering.  There are types:  Polyarticular arthritis,    Pauciarticular JRA and Systemic JRA. Once the type is identified the doctor may prescribe proper medications to deal with any kind of the disease. A therapist may be very helpful here; he will prescribe regimes which will help a lot in toning the muscles and providing flexibility to the muscles.

In many of the cases the doctor may recommend examinations of the fluids present in the joints of the child. These are done so that that it can be clearly ascertained that the abnormality in the blood is not due to any other factors because in many of the cases the pain might be due to different reasons.

So when the doctor becomes convinced that the pain is only due to arthritis he may recommend proper medications. There are three types of arthritis: Polyarticular arthritis,

The doctor’s advice should be taken and if needed proper medications should be given to the diseased.