As such there is no particular test for diagnosing reactive arthritis, one should look out for the symptoms like swelling in knee or ankle, you might feel acute pain, besides you may also feel burning sensation in your urinary genitals while passing urine, might have discharge from your urinary genitals, blurry vision and red eyes with a burning sensation. Reactive arthritis is actually a combination of arthritis with inflammation of eyes, genitals or gastrointestinal systems.

 Patient’s medical history is studied by the doctor to get information like from when the patient is suffering from those problems. The amount of pain and stiffness is monitored, also these stiffness tend to be more with these inflammatory problems especially during morning. Blood tests like sedimentation rate are conducted to diagnose the existence of the inflammation. Another blood test is conducted to test the presence of the genetic marker HLA-B27 in patients.

X-rays assist to reveal the presence of the inflammation in joints and the spine; it discloses the unusual calcification generally around the areas where the tendons attach to the bones. One should conduct an ophthalmology test for a patient within eye inflammation. Also bowel trends are to be studied in case of inflammation of bowel by collecting bowel samples, for inflammations of urinary tract urine samples are collected to study the urine trends. Also the reactive arthritis may affect the prostate gland should be diagnosed.