It is a common thing for parents for babies to walk and wrestle. Ms. Liang, the mother of the 3-year-old baby, thinks the same way. He didn't take his son to the hospital until he found that he fell too frequently. Unexpectedly, he was diagnosed with "hip arthritis". She was puzzled: How could such a small baby suffer from senile disease?

"Children often wrestle. Adults always think that it is caused by careless walking, but they do not know that it is very likely that children's hip arthritis is at fault." Zhang Qingwen, associate professor of orthopedics at the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and deputy chief physician of Joint District I, said that children aged 3-10 years and below are vulnerable to hip arthritis, especially boys. The main characteristics are joint redness, swelling, heat, pain and dysfunction.

The pathogenesis of children's arthritis may be related to virus infection, trauma, bacterial infection and allergic reaction (allergic reaction). Zhang Qingwen reminded that if the child has leg pain and other discomfort during a cold, or if parents find that the child has frequent falls, gait changes, reluctance to walk and other symptoms for a period of time, they should be vigilant and take the child to a doctor in time.

Zhang Qingwen suggested that parents should encourage their children to take proper exercise in the sun, such as walking and swimming, to improve their immunity. Once arthritis symptoms appear, immediately stop climbing stairs, squatting up and other activities to avoid aggravating the disease by doing the same action for a long time or fixing joints in the same position. (Chen Xuemin, Zhang Qiuxia/article)