Pediatric pain is the pain experienced when a child is affected by a disorder or a disease. A child can suffer from the usual aches and pain from growing up and from their day to day activities. But the real pain comes from chronic diseases and disorders. One type of pediatric pain is juvenile arthritis; the pain can be just as severe as the pain an adult feels. Arthritis affects the joints and with a child the pain is greater because a child is always moving about, they are playing, running, jumping and skipping. They know they feel pain but they want to be normal and do what normal children without a joint disease can do. Arthritis can be treated with medication and it actually helps a child to run and play, it keeps their joints from becoming stiff.

Another type of pediatric pain is from MS. A child born with Muscular  Dystrophy was born in pain and remains in some type of pain each day of their lives. Medications are given but they never feel pain free. They can’t run and play like the other kids to help loosen up the muscles. They attend physical therapy but when that is over and the pain returns they suffer again in agony. Every year the Jerry Lewis Telethon collects more and more money for research and hopefully one day we can find a cure.

Pediatric pain also comes in the form of cancer. Once a child is diagnosed with cancer, they are immediately treated and most of the time it is by chemotherapy because it works the best, but a child can feel pain from the treatment. First they feel some pain from the cancer and then they feel horrible from the treatment. Medications are given but a child still feels pain. Once the cancer has gone into remission, the pain will subside and eventually dissipate forever.

Pediatric pain is not something to take lightly, if a child says they are in pain, listen to them and find out what the pain feels like, how long they feel it and what happens as they are feeling it. If they are really complaining of pain and they have a fever, take them to the emergency room. Better safe than sorry.

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