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Symptoms

Symptoms vary depending on the child and their specific disorder. Common symptoms include:

- one or more joints that are inflamed and painful persistently or possibly become red and hot to the touch
pain when moving the joints, although many children never complain of pain
- stiffness or decreased ability to move joints, especially upon waking in the morning
- limp
- deformed joints
- limb posture or arched

Other symptoms may include:
- uneven patterns of growth (asymmetric) (one leg longer than the other)
- blurred vision, pain or redness in the eye
- low fever
- skin rash
- fatigue
- irritability
- chest pain
- complaints of widespread pain

Diagnosis

Juvenile arthritis is difficult to diagnose because many diseases have similar symptoms and there is no test for diagnosis. If your child shows symptoms of juvenile arthritis, you probably will be referred to a pediatric rheumatologist rheumatologist review the medical history of your child for signs, for example, the joint inflammation that persists for at least six weeks.

For example, one of the fundamental criteria for the diagnosis of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis is joint inflammation that persists for at least six weeks. Could blood tests to detect antibodies that commonly form in people with some form of arthritis, although these antibodies are often absent in children. You may have x-rays to detect damage to the cartilage or in severe cases, bone.

They could also do other tests to detect other conditions that could explain the symptoms, such as testing for infection: Lyme disease is an infection caused by arthritis that may affect children and mimic juvenile rheumatoid arthritis.

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