FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE RHEUMATIC DISEASE IN CHILDREN

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Abstract
It is rather infrequent for rheumatism to attack a child with well defined uniform symptoms that completely disappear after a definite period of illness. The clinical condition termed rheumatism is more likely to be insidious in its onset and to produce symptoms that may be mild or severe, of short or long duration, which make it difficult and impossible for the physician to prophesy accurately what the future has in store for a child once stigmatized with rheumatism. Recurrences of the same type or different manifestations of rheumatism frequently occur. They may not be serious but are likely to cause some disability. If the heart is involved, the initial or the recurrent attacks assume a real menace to the child. Until the specific cause of rheumatism is known and the constitutional susceptibility of the human host is understood, one can profitably study the factors that may be associated with the

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