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Inflammatory Arthritis - Types, Causes And Symptoms
By Dr John
What is Inflammatory Arthritis?
There are many forms of arthritis. Inflammatory arthritisis any form of that involves the immune system andinflammation. The characteristic symptoms of inflammation are swelling,heat, redness of skin, pain, and loss of function. There are differenttypes of inflammatory arthritis.
Autoimmune Disorders
- The body treats it own tissues as a foreign object and reacts to this foreign object with inflammation
- Rheumatoid - antibodies produced by the body attack the synovial membrane that encloses each joint
- Lupus - systematically affects connective tissues and organs
- Ankylosing Spondylitis - a progressive form of that causes inflammation of the spine and large joints
- Reiter’s Syndrome -a chronic, progressive disease that can affect the joints, tendonattachments, skeleton, and the eye’s conjunctiva and mucous membranes
- Psoriatic arthritis - causes inflammation of the skin and joints
- Inflammatory bowel disease - inflammatory can be associated with this disease
Other Causes of Inflammatory Arthritis
Inflammatory can be caused by other conditions, as well.Reactive is caused by certain types of bacteria and candevelop from an infection in another part of your body. The deposit ofcrystalline structures in the joints causes gout and pseudogout.Elevated blood levels of uric acid, which is a waste product, can formin the joints when the kidney does not properly dispose of the waste.
Symptoms of Inflammatory
The symptoms of inflammatory can include the following:
- Pain in one or more joints
- Swelling in one or more joints
- The affected
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