What are the reasons for Reiter's syndrome? What are the symptoms of the disease? How to diagnose and treatment of Reiter syndrome? Answers to these questions you will find in the article.
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Causes of Reiter's syndrome
Infection, hitting the body, can cause not only infectious disease, but also inflammation of various organs. For example, everyone knows that some people have a complication on the heart after an angina, or after influenza - a complication on the kidneys. There are infections that can cause complications on joints. Such are some types of intestinal and infections transmitted by sex. As a rule, this is the pathogens. These infections are usually accompanied by pain when urinating or separation from genital organs (chlamydia, gonorrhea), or intestinal disorders (Iraciniosis), and may pass asymptomatic. That is why to confirm or eliminate these diseases in some cases, a survey of a urologist or a gynecologist, an infectiousnessist.
Arthritis is not developing all those infected, but only one or two of the hundred, t.E. In people having a genetic predisposition. Arthritis usually begins within a month after infection getting into the body.
Symptoms of Reuters syndrome
Jet arthritis develops stadium and usually passes. Typical beginning with pain, swelling and edema of one or both knees or ankle joints. A week later, or two other joints can be affected in the same way. But usually manifestations of arthritis are moderate and concern only one joint. At the beginning of the disease, pain often arises. It is associated with inflammation of the sacrator and ileum at the base of the spine (sacroileite).
Most patients have a disease limited to joints. In some cases, inflammation applies to other nearby fabrics. The tendons are affected, especially where they are attached to the bones. This can cause severe pain, especially in the heel area. Inflammation of the tendons of the fingers causes swelling, and fingers become like sausages (symptom «Sosky-shaped finger»).
Sometimes skin is amazed. It arises from heavy peeling foci, especially on the soles, similar to Psoriasis. Sometimes small reddish foci of peeling appear on genitals. Skin lesion is called keratodermia.
Some patients have inflammation of the eye, which is accompanied by the sensations of sand in one or both eyes. They blush, stick together and become painful. This is called conjunctivitis, a slight inflammation that usually passes by itself. But some have a deeper eye inflammation - Irit, also called acute anterior uveit, which can lead to a decrease in vision. The above eye symptoms are a serious reason for urgent appeal to ophthalmologist.
Diagnosis of Reuters syndrome
There is no one analysis that could confirm the diagnosis of reactive arthritis. The diagnosis can be delivered after the collection and comparison of all data.
Often requires an inspection of a urologist or gynecologist and some analyzes for this part. You may be recommended to pass the feces for an analysis to eliminate intestinal infection. Blood tests are carried out to eliminate other possible diseases, as well as to determine the severity of the condition and control of treatment. Also conduct x-ray examination, most often a sacrism.
Treatment of Reiter syndrome
Treatment of reactive arthritis long, takes, as a rule, half a year, but sometimes up to one and a half years.
Appoint antibiotics for a long time (30-40 days), anti-inflammatory drugs to facilitate pain, as well as slow-acting anthermatic drugs that must be taken within a few months.
In most cases, reactive arthritis is cured and never repeated. But it happens that the disease becomes chronic or transformed into other rheumatic diseases.
