How does Rheumatoid arthritis occur and is there a cure for this disease?

Answer 1

In rheumatoid arthritis the body's own immune system attacks the joints and sometimes other organs in the body. We still don't understand why. Joints usually in the hands, wrists, elbows, knees or feet, on both sides of the body simultaneously swell and become painful and tender as a result The lining of the joints, the synovium swelling and becoming inflamed.

This is a chronic disease and once you are diagnosed with it you know it will be with you for life.

To date there has been no cure developed for it and the best you can hope for is that it goes into remission or responds well to treatment designed to control the damage cause by the illness.

Answer 2

There is no cure at present for RA or for juvenile RA

Rheumatoid Arthritis is a chronic auto immune disease and we don't at this point in time understand the cause of it. There are medicines that help control the immune reaction and inflammation but these have to be taken for long time as this is a chronic disease. and at the same time check the index in your blood called RF & Anti "o", heart ultrasound too. Because this disease if not well controlled, is capable of damaging other organs such as the heart lungs and other organs.

It is treatable, but someone with rheumatoid arthritis will have it for the rest of their life. It may go into remission or slow down, but as my hematologist told me, it never goes away. There are a lot of different options for treatment, medicines, physical therapy, occupational therapy, etc., that help ease some of the pain and help mobility.

I Have had Rheumatoid arthritis all of my life and have had some trouble with it since I was about 8 now at 60 I am under the treatment of a specialist to keep it under control however during my life I have had periods of extreme pain and the times when I had no problems at all, so you can say that it comes and goes. The great thing is that these days things can be kept under much better control. But it will never leave the system completely unless someone comes up with a cure.

There is no cure for JRA the only thing to do is monitor it and use the right drugs and physiotherapy to keep it under control and to stop it from causing more damage then can be helped. With luck the disease can go into remission for unspecified periods of time.

Answer 3

No, at this stage there is no cure for RA. There is only hope that the disease goes into remission. There are treatments that reduce and in some cases eliminate the damage that can be caused by RA but neither the cause nor how to stop it are known.

Answer 4

Although there is no cure for Rheumatoid Arthritis, it is possible to treat it. Treatments help alleviate pain and help living with the disorder more bearable.

No drug has been found to cure arthritis. However, many drugs reduce pain and inflammation, and some have shown promise in slowing the progression of the disease.

Answer 5

No there is no cure for RA however treatments can avoid a lot of the damage that the disease can do,