Symptoms of rheumatic fever

A common recurring acute or chronic connective tissue inflammation can affect our heart health and cause pain in various joints. If not treated in time, it will be accompanied by uremia, fever, and rash, affecting our physical health. Do you know what the symptoms of rheumatic fever are? Let's take a closer look.

The symptoms of these diseases may not be so obvious at the beginning, because many people ignore the seriousness, which brings a greater threat to the body. Therefore, I hope everyone can fully understand the symptoms of rheumatic fever so that timely diagnosis and treatment can be made.

1. General symptoms include fever, malaise, fatigue, poor appetite, pale complexion, sweating and abdominal pain, and some patients may suffer from pleurisy and pneumonia.

2. Carditis The most characteristic manifestation of acute rheumatic fever is carditis, which is the only persistent organ damage. During the first attack, the myocardium, endocardium and pericardium may all be affected, with myocarditis and endocarditis being the most common. Pancarditis may also occur with an incidence of 40% to 50%. Symptoms usually appear within 1 to 2 weeks of onset.

3. Arthritis occurs in 75% of children with the first attack, affecting large joints, most commonly the knees, ankles, elbows, and wrists, with symptoms of redness, swelling, heat, pain, and limited mobility. It may affect several joints at the same time, or move from one joint to another; the arthritis eventually subsides without leaving deformities.

4. Chorea, also known as Sydenham's chorea, is characterized by purposeless, involuntary, rapid movements of the whole body or parts of the muscles, such as sticking out the tongue, twisting the mouth, squinting, shrugging the shoulders, shrinking the neck, speech disorders, dysgraphia, and incoordination of fine movements. It worsens when excited or concentrating, and disappears after falling asleep, accompanied by muscle weakness and emotional instability. It accounts for 10% of children with rheumatic fever and often appears several months after other symptoms. If the rheumatic fever attack is mild, chorea may be the first symptom. The course of the disease is about 3 months.

The above are the symptoms of rheumatic fever. You can observe whether your body has such abnormal problems in your life. If so, you must pay attention to actively seek treatment, because only timely discovery and treatment can reduce the damage.