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Symptoms of disease - Arthritis

Arthritis is an inflammation of one (monoarthritis) or several (oligoarthritis or polyarthritis) joints. At the same time joint pain, swollen, become hot to the touch, the skin under them blush, the person has a limitation in movement. At an inflammation of the pain is usually more pronounced after the holiday, during physical exercise, it is sometimes decreases (joint "developed").

In the world arthritis affects about half a billion people (one tenth).

It is necessary to remember, that arthritis is not an independent disease. Simply diagnosis "arthritis" does not exist. In the final diagnosis of the word "arthritis" for sure is complemented by some explanation: "rheumatoid arthritis", "osteoarthritis", "gouty arthritis" and others. Only to the development of arthritis can lead more than 200 different diseases.

When it is arthritis, difficult to assess the risk to health and life. Some arthritis can quickly lead to irreversible disturbance of function of joints in the absence of proper treatment (e.g., bacterial or purulent arthritis), other more often proceed very slowly (osteoarthritis). For some diseases besides the arthritis there is also defeat of internal organs (kidney, heart, lungs, etc.), which is the main danger.

Which diseases there is Arthritis

• Rheumatoid arthritis
• Osteoarthritis
• Gouty arthritis, etc.

Which doctor should I contact if there is a Arthritis

• Rheumatologist

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Do you have Arthritis? You should be very careful approach to your health in general. People pay not enough attention to the symptoms of the disease and don't realize that these diseases can be critically dangerous. There are many diseases that in the beginning didn't manifest in our body, but in the end it turns out, unfortunately, it have already been treated too late. Every disease has its own specific features typical symptoms - called symptoms of the disease. Definition of symptoms is the first step in the diagnosis of diseases in general. You just need a few times a year to be screened by a doctor, not only to prevent a terrible disease, but also to maintain a healthy spirit in a body and the organism in general.

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