What Is Seronegative Arthritis?

Seronegative Arthritis is an umbrella term used for various types of arthritis diseases. Alarmingly, these diseases have the same symptoms as observed in rheumatoid arthritis. However, these diseases are difficult to detect as they do not have any rheumatoid factor as the determining condition in the blood test. Patients suffering from this disease experience primary symptoms like pain, stiffness in the joints and inflammation. This means that the important joints in our body parts like shoulders, elbows, spine, wrist, fingers, ankle, toes and feet become painful and feeble in this condition.

Psoriatic arthritis, one of the most common forms of Seronegative Arthritis which affects more than 30 per cent of people in old age. Pain and stiffness are the evident alarm signals of this disease. Other than these symptoms, other significant signs are nail deformities like yellowing, thickening, pitting and inflammation. In Ankylosing Spondylitis, people get distressed with chronic pains in the hips as well as the lower back area of the body. This pain then spreads to the spine, ribs, shoulders, thighs and heels. Fatigue and anemia with mild fever are other common indicatives of this disease. Reactive arthritis is bacteria propagated disease. It affects the joints in feet, ankles and knees of the person.