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Rheumatic fever is an inflammatory ailment that can boom at the same time as strep throat or scarlet fever isn't always properly treated. Strep throat and scarlet fever are because of an contamination with streptococcus (strep-toe-KOK-us) micro organism. Rheumatic fever most often affects children a while 5 to fifteen. However it can expand in greater younger children and adults. Regardless of the truth that strep throat is not unusual, rheumatic fever is rare in the u.S. And specific advanced international locations. Rheumatic fever can motive everlasting damage to the coronary coronary coronary heart, consisting of damaged coronary coronary coronary heart valves and coronary coronary heart failure. Treatment can ease ache, reduce damage from infection and prevent a recurrence of rheumatic fever. Rheumatic fever is a disease that might upward thrust up following an infection due to the employer A streptococcus bacterium. If untreated, an contamination including 'strep throat' might also additionally cause a behind schedule trouble supplying sizable contamination in other factors of the body, specially the joints, coronary coronary heart, pores and skin and mind. Rheumatic fever is classed as an autoimmune illness because of the reality the infection is probably attributable to the immune gadget's reaction to the micro organism. On the same time as rheumatic fever can boom at any age, youngsters among 5 and 14 years are at expanded risk. Without remedy, the ailment can purpose critical complications at the side of rheumatic coronary heart illness.

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