Still's disease is a severe form of juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) that causes high fever, rash and joint pain; There may be a prolonged arthritis. Rheumatic diseases are conditions that have nothing to do with the color , race, age or social status, they appear without permission and remain in thelife of the person forever.
symptoms:
1. It is common to this heat and swelling. Articular morning stiffness that
lasts several hours.
2. The fever usually comes on quickly once a day in the evening or
at night.
3. The skin rash is typically salmon pink colored
4. It may be swollen spleen, liver lungs and heart.
To Yari Pacheco who is part of Fundartritis and is mother of a girl of 13 years who suffers from Still's disease, commonly called JRA. Since her daughter was diagnosed in 2015 by a qualified rheumatologist, after passing through the hands of other doctors and clinics, they had access to treatment, which improved significantly.
"At first my daughter had a sharp pain in his left arm and had a fever of 40 degrees. After starting treatment indicating the rheumatologist, the fever subsided, but the pain still and could not move his hands. Seeing this specialist indicated a biological therapy. "
According to Ms. Pacheco 48 hours after starting the first dose, all symptoms improved achieving great mobility in the joint without feeling pain. "My daughter told me to wake Mom slept that rich, that feels good stretch !, rose, bathed alone, dressed and comb, which could not do before because of the pain; a miracle that makes life to be grateful. "
Experiential testimony of Yari Pacheco and her daughter, is just one of hundreds of Fundartritis, nonprofit organization founded in 2007 and is made up of patients and families that support all who suffer this condition organization, and that this instead they make a call health authorities to seek solution to the drug shortage promptly.
"My daughter 13 years Still accepted as part of life, provided it can have it controlled with treatment because it provides quality of life and can have a normal day to day without pain," he concluded.
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