A 3-year-old child suddenly limped when he got up from a nap, and kept complaining of leg pain. He took him to the hospital for a check-up, and it turned out that it was a child’s temporary hip joint synovitis.
The child’s mother doesn’t understand. She has always thought that synovitis is a disease only for the elderly. Such a small child is fine before going to bed and has not been injured. How could it be What about synovitis?
In fact, temporary synovitis in children is also called transient synovitis of the hip joint. It is a self-limiting disease. It may get better without treatment, but it will last for a long time. will be relatively long.
Hip synovitis is a common hip disease in childhood, mostly occurring in children aged 3-8, and according to data surveys, boys are at higher risk than girls doubled.
This disease was discovered more than 100 years ago, but until now, people have not figured out what the real cause of this disease is?
However, it is medically believed that temporary synovitis in children may be related to viral or bacterial infection, or trauma, or the immaturity of the child’s hip joint, or excessive exercise. These factors lead to edema of the synovial membrane of the hip joint in children, a build-up of fluid, and the pressure of the fluid reduces blood flow to the hip joint, resulting in symptoms such as pain and limited hip function.
The typical symptoms of transient synovitis of the hip in children are: acute onset, sudden hip, varying degrees of pain in the knee, postural deformity during hip movement, painful or Painless claudication, and a few have low-grade fever.
It should also be noted that some children have a history of viral infections such as upper respiratory tract inflammation and otitis media about two weeks before the onset of symptoms.
If your child has this condition, avoid weight-bearing and bed rest first. Restricting walking and not allowing the joints to bear weight is beneficial to the elimination of joint edema and the symptoms to disappear as soon as possible.
Secondly, it can be combined with local massage or hot compress. If the symptoms are severe, traction can be used to treat them.
Others have no specific treatment and generally do not require medication.
In addition, the pain can be significantly relieved in 2-3 days, and the lameness can be completely recovered in 1-4 weeks.
In most cases, the disease has no sequelae, and even recurrent childhood transient synovitis is benign.
However, special attention should be paid to children with recurrent disease or a disease course of more than 1 month, and should seek medical attention in time to rule out whether it is LCPD, a common rickety disease, which mostly occurs between 5-10 age male children.
Temporary synovitis of the hip joint is the most common hip joint disease in children, with the possibility of recurrence. Parents do not need to worry, just avoid problems such as children’s weight-bearing, observe at any time, and pay attention to their Recovery, once symptoms worsen or other symptoms appear, seek medical attention in time to rule out other diseases.