Rheumatic fever is a seditious disease. This can affect many of the tissues in body including those attached to heart, skin, brain and joints. Rheumatic fever is found in any age group people but chances for acute fever are mostly among children who are five to fifteen years of age. The rheumatic heart disease which results of this fever can last longer.

The occurrence of rheumatic heart disease and rheumatic fever is not very common to US and other countries but rheumatic fever can be a cause to cardiovascular death to anyone. Recognizing its symptoms and causes can save us from rheumatic heart disease. Mainly focusing on getting rid of rheumatic fever can save one.

 

 

Symptoms of strep throat can be sudden onset of sore throat, pain and swallowing, headache, fever, red throat and abdominal pain. The symptoms are not restricted to these only and in some people, symptoms are very mild and few but they form viral infections. Talking about rheumatic fever symptoms, it can produce fever, chest pain, fatigue, breath shortness, heart palpitations etc. Symptoms of rheumatic fever appear after three weeks of strep throat.

 

 

Mainly, getting rid of strep throat is required to cure this disease by usage of penicillin and any other anti-biotic. People who faced rheumatic fever twice or more time are more probable to have heart damage or any other tissues. These kinds of people are treated with daily anti biotic on monthly schedule. The American Heart Association suggests daily or monthly prophylaxis to continue long term or even life time to cure such disease.