1, daily care of rheumatism
1. Clear diagnosis and regular treatment:
After getting sick, you should go to the rheumatism clinic of a regular hospital for diagnosis. Before treatment, you need to know the treatment plan and what factors will induce the onset of the disease, and learn how to relieve the pain. Once the treatment plan is determined, you need to take the medicine according to the doctor's advice. Appropriate cooperation with traditional Chinese medicine can obviously increase the curative effect and reduce the side effects of the medicine.
2. Psychological factors:
A healthy mental state is conducive to the recovery of the disease, while a bad mental state not only affects the enthusiasm of cooperating with treatment and rehabilitation exercise, but also causes negative psychological stimulation, which acts on organs and systems dominated by the autonomic nervous system and affects the whole body through the endocrine system, which is not conducive to the recovery of the disease. Therefore, we must have the determination and perseverance to overcome the disease.
3, diet and daily life:
There are no obvious taboos in diet. Take high vitamins, high-quality protein and a light and balanced diet, drink more milk or yogurt, and avoid eating too much fatty food and too sour and salty food. However, milk, grains, some animal products and allergic foods may aggravate the symptoms of arthritis, and should be avoided once found. Some foods, such as bitter gourd, towel gourd, tofu, yam and foods rich in omega-3 fatty acids, may have the effect of relieving joint inflammation and symptoms, so you can eat more appropriately. Drink plenty of water, get more sunshine, and actively supplement calcium according to the doctor's advice when necessary. Pay attention to personal hygiene, pay attention to cold and moisture in rainy weather and seasonal changes, protect the gastrointestinal tract, liver and kidney, and avoid eating cold and irritating food. If you encounter diseases such as colds and diarrhea during treatment, you can use it as a consultant to avoid drug reactions and increase the burden on the gastrointestinal tract, liver and kidney.
4. Quit smoking and control alcohol:
Smoking will aggravate the condition of rheumatoid arthritis, and the pain is obvious. Liquor and wine can be drunk properly, but if anti-inflammatory painkillers, methotrexate and other drugs are used, they should be avoided.
5, daily work and functional exercise:
Daily life should be regular, take comfort as the principle, give up the habit of demanding perfection, do what you can, and don't aggravate joint pain or have obvious fatigue. When the pain is obvious, you can start with simple stretching exercise combined with breathing guidance. The ancients have long discovered in practice that "hey" sound energy can reduce fire and eliminate annoyance, "ha" sound energy can dissipate heat, "hiss" sound energy can relieve pain, and bird-like exercise can regulate qi. The exercise process should follow the principles of "relaxing nature" and "step by step", and the key lies in persistence. At the same time, pay attention to joint warmth and proper exercise protection, and try to keep joints in a functional position when resting. If the knee is involved, don't put a pillow under the knee to avoid buckling deformity, and adopt different exercise strategies according to the situation of the involved joints.
6, correctly handle the pain caused by rheumatoid arthritis:
Repeated pain due to short-term changes in seasons and weather can be considered by physical therapy such as warm bath, massage, moxibustion, acupuncture and infrared rays, and should be fully rested. If necessary, you should try painkillers. If it is a prescription drug, consult a doctor. If it is still uncontrollable, you should return to the clinic in time and adjust the treatment plan.
7, regular follow-up:
Consult a doctor at any time if you have any questions about taking medicine, dietary contraindications, functional exercise, etc., take medicine strictly according to the doctor's advice and follow up, and return to the clinic at any time if your condition changes.
2. Symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis
1, early systemic manifestations
At the initial stage of the disease, patients may show fatigue and discomfort, hand swelling, musculoskeletal pain all over the body, muscle atrophy around joints, physical weakness, difficulty in opening doors, difficulty in going upstairs or repetitive movements, and may be accompanied by symptoms such as low fever, depression or anxiety.
2, morning stiffness
Morning stiffness of rheumatoid arthritis can occur before joint pain appears. Sick joint stiffness can appear for a long time after night, and can be relieved after full exercise. In the early stage of onset, the time of morning stiffness is generally shorter and it is easier to recover.
3, joint pain
Arthralgia is the earliest joint symptom of rheumatoid arthritis. The nature of pain is mostly chronic pain, but also less severe pain. The temperature of the joint skin in the pain area increases, but the surface is not red.
4, joint swelling
Rheumatoid arthritis joint swelling is mostly caused by joint cavity effusion or inflammation around the joint, and the long course of disease can cause swelling due to chronic inflammation and hypertrophy of synovium. Swelling can occur in all involved joints, and the common parts are wrist joint, proximal phalangeal joint and knee joint.
5, the specific performance
Rheumatoid nodules are specific manifestations of rheumatoid arthritis, appearing in 20%-30% patients. It is characterized by single or multiple textures of different sizes, such as rubber-like, without tenderness or slight tenderness, mostly located in the carina and joint compression parts. The appearance of rheumatoid nodules is a sign of pathological activity of rheumatoid arthritis.
6. Late performance
In the late or late stage of rheumatoid arthritis, synovitis can cause damage to cartilage and bone structure and joint deformity, and even patients often have symptoms such as joint movement disorder due to shutdown deformity.