The tonic season began, but doctors reminded those diagnosed with juvenile spontaneous arthritis not to take ginseng or ganoderma lucidum to avoid aggravating inflammatory symptoms. 4 years old and 10 years old are the peaks of juvenile spontaneous arthritis.
Yang, director of the Department of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology at National Taiwan University Hospital, said that arthritis is not a patent for the elderly, and "juvenile idiopathic arthritis" (JIA) suffered by young children is an autoimmune disease. The cause of the disease is unknown, which may be abnormal immune system, causing cell inflammation and attacking joints.
The incidence of adolescent spontaneous arthritis in Taiwan Province area is 4.93 per 654.38+ 10,000 children every year, and the clinical patients range from children over 654.38+0 to senior high school students, with peaks at 4 years old and 654.38+00 years old respectively. Symptoms are chronic and persistent joint redness, swelling, heat, pain and morning stiffness, limited activity, and even inconvenient activity.
In addition, adolescent spontaneous arthritis can attack all organs of the whole body, such as eyes, and patients often have the risk of uveitis, which seriously damages their vision. According to "Study on Spontaneous Arthritis and Uveitis among Adolescents in Taiwan Province Province", 4.7% of adolescent patients with spontaneous arthritis were complicated with Uveitis, of which 24.8% with glaucoma and 1 1.2% with cataract.