Conditions
Start with a diagnosis you know, or choose a question you want to understand. These guides support a conversation with your care team; they cannot diagnose the cause of a fever or other symptom.
Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF)
Episodes, diagnosis, colchicine and follow-up.
PFAPA
Recurring fever with mouth ulcers, sore throat and swollen neck glands.
TRAPS
Understanding a variable inherited inflammatory condition.
Cryopyrin-associated periodic syndromes (CAPS)
FCAS, Muckle–Wells and NOMID/CINCA.
Mevalonate kinase deficiency (MKD / HIDS)
What the names mean and how care is planned.
Adult-onset disease
Still’s disease, VEXAS and evaluation in adulthood.
Still’s disease
Shared questions across childhood and adulthood.
SAPHO syndrome
Connecting bone, joint and skin symptoms.
CNO / CRMO
A guide to nonbacterial bone inflammation.
Still looking for an explanation?
- A child with recurring fevers
- Autoinflammatory disease in adults
- Genetic testing, negative results and uncertainty
- Preparing for a specialist visit
Other conditions and perspectives
- CNO/CRMO: understanding bone inflammation
- SAVI and interferon-driven inflammation
- The basics of autoinflammatory disease
- Autoinflammatory versus autoimmune
Practical resources
Fever and symptom diary · Monitoring · Daily life · Support organizations
For readers who want more
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