Have your child been recently diagnosed with JRA (Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis)? Seeing your own child grow up with such a painful condition is certainly not an easy thing to do. Nevertheless, you can help your little kid grow up with JRA and cope with it well while living a productive life by learning whatever you can about the disease, its various symptoms, and possible treatments.

JRA is difficult to manage and live with for a patient of every age group, but for little children, it can be extremely difficult. Childhood is the time to enjoy and remain carefree, but having to grow up with JRA can have a very bad effect on the usual cheerfulness of a normal childhood. Instead of playing out with friends, children suffering from this condition have to get immobilized by pain and swollen joints.

JRA, a common autoimmune disease of children, is usually found to manifest between six months and sixteen years of age. In this condition, the patient’s WBCs fail to differentiate the body’s healthy cells from harmful viruses and bacteria, thereby releasing chemicals to destroy the normal body cells. This leads to inflammation and pain in tissues of the joint. The primary symptoms of the disease include tender wrist, knee, and finger joints. You may also notice that with time, the different joints of your child will swell inexplicably and become enlarged permanently. The child might also feel stiffness in neck and hip joints. Other major symptoms of JRA include high fever in evenings and rashes in different parts of the body.

JRA can be treated with the help of physical therapy, medicines, and/or surgery. While some medicines are administered merely to alleviate the persisting pain, some others prevent the condition to progress and get worse. The most common medicines recommended for JRA treatment include NSAIDs, corticosteroids, TNF blockers, and DMARDs.

To help your children cope with this horrifying condition, you must extend maximum possible love and support to them. As it is something that they will have to grow up with, you need to make them comfortable with this better fact of their life. You can do this by allowing your child to express his/her frustration. Treat him/her as you treat other normal kids of the family and make sure physical activities are made a part of his/her daily routine.

To ensure regular studies, have a talk with the teachers so that the required assignments are sent home whenever the kid is not in a position to go to school. Socializing with parents of kids with similar condition can help you fight the condition in a much better way.

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