I hope everyone is enjoying the cooler weather, as you may have guessed, I am not. No really bad reactions yet, though my feet are having issues regulating themselves. Today most of me was hot except my feet! They were FREEZING!! sigh...

Well an interesting thing, I was curious as to if kids got this sorta thing, because most things I've ever heard about was with adults. The general age range starts at 18, but that's general. So I started to look up things to see if kids got this sorta thing, I'm sure they can but I don't know much about that subject so I will tell you my findings.

I found this website which was helpful with children having this and just Raynaud's in general, from Boston's Children Hospital.

I didn't know this but Raynaud's is French, coming from a French Medical student who first described this in 1862. Surprising that not many people know about this "disease" even though it's found in 4-15 percent of people in the United States, documented by the Arthritis Foundation.

Every person I have found and talked to that knows someone or that they have Raynaud's are women. 80 percent of those who have the Primary form are women. It can also develop between the ages of 12 and 30!
They also found that 25 percent of people who have the Primary form have a family history of it as well. Strange that it's only 25 percent though.

I saw this paragraph that was very interesting to me...
Studies on pediatric Raynaud’s are rare, with Children’s Hospital Boston rheumatologists being among the handful of investigators. Peter Nigrovic, MD, and Robert Sundel, MD, recently coauthored a study of more than 100 Raynaud’s patients, ranging from infants to age 19, published in the journal Pediatrics. Among the study's findings:


Primary and secondary Raynaud’s tended to begin around the same age, roughly 12 or 13.

As with adult patients, the majority of the children referred to rheumatologists (about 70 percent) had the relatively harmless form of the condition, called primary Raynaud’s.

As with adult patients, antinuclear antibody (ANA) and nailfold capillary tests offered strong indicators of whether a child had secondary Raynaud’s.

Interesting...Like I told you all (to whom ever actually reads this) I started symptoms when I was 18.

One good thing they say in their article is that the 'disease' never worsens...the bad...that it doesn't go away and that there is no cure...but...I do like that it's said that it won't get worse that what it is now.

That's all for this post! Toodles!!http://www.childrenshospital.org/az/Site2940/mainpageS2940P1.html