Take medicine if it hurts, and don't take it if it doesn't hurt. This concept is no different from hard shoulder. Neglect or indulgence of the disease will not help to control the development of the disease. The disappearance of pain does not mean that the disease is cured. If you stop taking drugs at will and don't continue treatment, the disease will rebound soon. If the joint is destroyed again, the pain will escalate and the disease will develop to a more serious degree.
If we continue to repeat this, we will not be far from disability.
2. Sit for a long time and stand for a long time, keep a posture?
For strong friends, they often sit at work for a day, and a sedentary lifestyle will worsen the degree of rigidity and reduce mobility and flexibility. Or work is busy, one stop is one day, and there is no rest, which leads to aggravated back pain.
The spine of patients with ankylosing spondylitis is prone to deformity, so attention should be paid to maintaining physiological posture to prevent deformity and stiffness of the spine. Maintain a correct posture during rest, sleep on a hard bed, take a supine position, and keep the pillow as low as possible; When standing or sitting, try to hold your chest and abdomen; When writing, the desk should be higher and the chair should be shorter. Physical activity that can lead to persistent pain should be avoided.
3. Smoking and drinking?
Many powerful friends often have this or that kind of work or entertainment in their daily lives. Smoking is the worst for ankylosing spondylitis. Smoking is an environmental damage to others or yourself. Smoking can also lead to low responsiveness of patients to ankylosing spondylitis. Alcohol is also harmful to strong friends. First of all, it destroys the proportion of bacteria in the intestine, and many autoimmune diseases are often related to the intestine.
Even if you have to drink alcohol, you can drink more green tea, which can offset gluten reaction to some extent and maintain the normal proportion of bacteria in the intestine.
4. Don't like sports?
Patients with ankylosing spondylitis who have been bedridden for a long time because of pain have stiff spine and limbs. Except those with severe systemic symptoms and obvious pain, all joints should be moved as much as possible, and local and systemic functional exercises such as chest enlargement, deep breathing, spine and lower limb movements should be carried out to prevent and alleviate joint adhesion, stiffness and muscle atrophy. Patients who are seriously ill and can't get up will be under control after taking the medicine. They can do some proper functional exercises in bed and strive for early activities in the fields.
5, do not pay attention to food hygiene?
Infection can be divided into many kinds, including virus infection, intestinal infection and urinary system infection, which are closely related to ankylosing spondylitis. Therefore, rigid friends need to pay attention to their usual food hygiene, personal hygiene and environmental hygiene, do not eat unclean food, do not eat cold food, and eat less roadside stalls and takeout.
The diet should be nutritious and digestible, and pay attention to the intake of protein and vitamins; Eat more meat, eggs, milk, vegetables and fruits. If your blood uric acid level is normal, you can also eat more beans, such as soybeans, black beans, soybeans, and fruit foods, such as chestnuts and shrimps, such as fresh river shrimps.
It should be emphasized that supplements are not as badly needed as some health care products. On the one hand, it is not very beneficial to treat rigidity, on the other hand, the trace elements increased in health care products may also be obtained from natural foods.
6, playing games for a long time, playing mobile phones, excessive use of eyes?
Ankylosing spondylitis may involve heart, lung, stomach, kidney, eyes, nervous system, digestive system and other human organ systems. Eye complications are common, such as iritis and uveitis, which are as repetitive as ankylosing diseases themselves. Complex iritis will interact with ankylosing diseases themselves. Therefore, friends with rigidity should also pay attention to eye hygiene, wash eye secretions in time, keep conjunctiva clean, avoid infection, don't use their eyes excessively, watch TV and play mobile phones moderately.
7. Go to bed late and get up late?
Many patients with ankylosing spondylitis interfere with sleep in many ways, including pain and anxiety accompanying the disease. But getting enough rest is crucial. Sleep can repair the body. You can choose a gentle way to promote sleep. For example, listening to soothing music, reading books and doing some simple yoga or stretching exercises before going to bed can not only relax your body and mind, but also help you recover from sleep and illness.