The knee of a 10-year-old child is not red, swollen but painful may be due to suppurative osteomyelitis, joint tuberculosis and other factors, which can be relieved by medication, surgery and other ways.
1. Osteomyelitis: it is a companion disease of bone destruction caused by bacterial infection. It occurs in the long bones of the knee joint. The infected foci are in the deep part, the local pain is severe but the redness and swelling symptoms are often atypical. It can be treated by medication such as oral metronidazole, piperacillin and other anti-infective drugs, and can also be treated by surgery such as drilling and drainage to drain out the pus combined with medication.
2. Joint tuberculosis: children with joint tuberculosis are prone to cold abscesses in the joints, which may cause pain but not redness and swelling, and often have a history of tuberculosis, and bone destruction and cold abscess formation can be observed by MRI of the joints. Anti-tuberculosis treatment with drugs such as isoniazid, rifampicin, pyrazinamide and ethambutol may be prescribed.
The 10-year-old child has a knee not red, swollen but painful symptoms, may also be fracture, bone tumor and other diseases, should be timely to the hospital, improve the relevant examination such as X-ray, magnetic resonance and other tests to clarify the cause of the disease, under the guidance of the doctor’s treatment, avoid unauthorized use of medication, so as to avoid delaying the condition.