Juvenile Arthritis

Juvenile arthritis isn’t nice at all. Especially when you consider that it’s a young child suffering the pain. Juvenile arthritis is commonly referred to as JRA, and is not a degenerative disease as such. Rather, we can classify it as an auto-immune disease, which is caused by an attack of the immune system upon the body.

Usually, our immune system protects us from dangerous enemies from outside (like viruses), but in the case of auto-immune diseases, there is no such protection. Juvenile arthritis affects children of sixteen years of age, and under.

So now the question is – what causes JRA? Well, this is still unknown, but doctors and scientists say that the cause could be a viral illness. Of course, there is also a genetic factor to be taken into account.

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