If your kid suddenly starts limping this could be why
Angela Angers?s daughter was two and a half years old when she woke up one morning and suddenly couldn?t walk.
“The night before she couldn’t settle,? says Angers. ?She was really uncomfortable and kept telling me that her legs hurt.? The next morning, her daughter had developed an obvious limp and wouldn?t put weight on her one leg. She reverted back to crawling to get around. Angers brought her daughter to see her doctor that day where she was diagnosed with transient synovitis.
What is transient synovitis"
Transient synovitis, also known as toxic synovitis, is inflammation in the hip joint, and commonly causes hip pain in children. While the science isn?t conclusive, doctors believe the inflammation is due to a virus or infection that occurs elsewhere in the body, causing an immune response. Then, either particles from the virus or a byproduct from the immune system?s reaction starts to migrate to the hip joint over a few weeks and causes inflammation of the joint lining that causes kids? pain, explains Ran Goldman, a paediatrician and emergency physician at BC Children?s Hospital. Transient synovitis usually causes pain in just one hip joint, but it can occur very rarely in both hip joints. Sometimes the pain starts gradually, causing a child to limp, and then potentially progressing until they won?t stand at all. Other times it comes on suddenly, as was the case with Angers?s daughter. In most cases, the child would have had a virus a few weeks prior a...
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