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Infectious Arthritis

Health Encyclopedia: Arthritis

Alternative Names

Joint inflammation

Symptoms

If you have arthritis, you may experience:

Joint pain
Joint swelling
Stiffness, especially in the morning
Warmth around a joint
Redness of the skin around a joint
Reduced ability to move the joint

Signs and tests

First, your doctor will take a detailed medical history to see if arthritis or another musculoskeletal...

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Expert & Community Posts

Treating the Fire of Rheumatoid Arthritis

By Christina Lasich, MD , Health Expert

...trauma, seronegative spondyloarthropathy, sarcoidosis, infectious arthritis, gout,... Read more »

Coping Skill - #14 - Every Recovery is Precious

By Robin Cunningham , Health Expert

...cholesterol, coronary stent implants, Crohn's disease, infectious arthritis [with chronic pain],... Read more »

Combating the Aging Process

By Nancy Muller , Health Expert

While at NAFC, we have long echoed the mantra that loss of bladder or bowel control is not an... Read more »

Environmental and Geographic Influences on RA

By Christine Miller , Health Expert

Last week at the American College of Rheumatology annual meeting, researchers from the Mayo Clinic... Read more »

Swine Flu and Immune-Suppressing Drugs

By Mark Borigini, M.D. , Health Expert

Many medications prescribed for rheumatoid arthritis can weaken the immune system, including... Read more »

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Health Guide

...Rheumatoid arthritis generally affects both wrists. Psoriatic arthritis accompanies psoriasis. Infectious arthritis is a medical emergency. The signs of an infection include redness and... Read more »

Wrist pain

...several days. Wrist splints can be purchased at many drugstores and medical supply stores. For non-infectious arthritis: Do flexibility and strengthening exercises every day. Work with... Read more »

Arthritis

Joint inflammation Treatment Treatment of arthritis depends on the particular cause, which joints are affected, severity, and how the condition... Read more »

Diagnosis

...identifies gout.Diseases with Symptoms Similar to Rheumatoid ArthritisDiseaseSpecific SubtypesOsteoarthritisInfectious ArthritisLyme disease, septic arthritis, bacterial endocarditis,... Read more »

Fibromyalgia: Conditions with Similar Symptoms

...similar conditions.Diseases with Similar Symptoms to FibromyalgiaDiseaseSpecific SubtypesOsteoarthritisInfectious ArthritisLyme disease, septic arthritis, bacterial endocarditis, mycobacterial and... Read more »

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(Ivanhoe Newswire) Something missing from our stomachs may be the reason behind the recent rise asthma cases. Researchers from New York University... Read summary »

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