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JIA Explained is the place for information on all things Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis. We hope that with our help you are able to learn more about this chronic condition and educate the people around you!
What is JIA?
Juvenile Arthritis is a chronic illness manifested in children under eighteen. It comes in the form of fever, swelling, rashes, and pain.
JIA Definition
Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis is an autoimmune disease where the child or teenager’s bodily immune system fiercely and constantly attacks their joints, resulting in inflammation, pain, burning, swelling, stiffness, and eventually losing the joints. It induces limited range of motion in affected joints, making normal everyday tasks way more challenging than usual or even impossible for children wielding the chronic condition. Juvenile rheumatoid idiopathic arthritis (JIA) includes subtypes such as oligoarthritis, which affects less than five joints, and polyarthritis, which affects five or more joints. While JA is extremely rare, affecting less than 300,000 kids, polyarthritis is much less common than the more observed oligoarthritis.