According to Global standards at least 1 in every 1000 child will present with chronic arthritis


We had Paediatric Rheumatologist, Dr Deepthi (Dee) Abraham who currently heads up and runs the Paediatric Rheumatology and Immunology Outpatient department at Tygerberg where she sees patients every Tuesday and Wednesday. Tygerberg Children’s trust in partnership with Una from the Andrea’s Gift Foundation (SA) who is a dynamic patient-centered, pro-awareness Non- Profit Organisation for people living with lupus will be hosting there ever first WORD day which stands for World Young Rheumatic Disease Day which serves to be held on the 18 of March 2020 at the C3a Paediatric OPD ward at Tygerberg Hospital from 09:00 – 15:00.
They are hoping that children from the Red Cross and Groote Schuur Hospital will be part of the celebration that Tygerberg hospital will be hosting for the 1st time.
As a lot of people only think that Rheumatic disease occur in the elderly or middle age individuals. It is very few times that people actually understand and realize that children also presents with Rheumatic diseases.

Dr. Dee explains: "So when we speak about Rheumatic conditions we speaking about connective tissue, so this can be bone, joints, skin or muscle, so children present with problems in all of these areas including arthritis, hence the purpose for the event is to raise awareness to make people known that diseases such as the above mention do effect children and do occur in children and that early awareness and diagnoses is able to bring the children into the hospital settings for the necessary help and treatment”.
According to Global standards at least 1 in every 1000 child will present with chronic arthritis known as Juvenile Psoriatic Arthritis and we sit with a problem in Africa whereby it is under diagnose. Hence early diagnoses are vital to prevent disability and children below 16 as those are the ages it affects. Lupus is disease that can mimic.
At the event will be speakers to speak more in debt on the disease and the treatment process and this event is open to the public, there will be people from supports groups, the arthritis foundation and yoga will be done on the day. So let's get informed and stop letting these diseases eat us up in silence, inform yourselves and communities.
For more information, check out: Andrea Gift Foundation.

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