1, symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis
1, morning stiffness:
This is a symptom that some patients with rheumatoid arthritis will have. Most friends who have this disease will have this disease, just don't know why. Morning stiffness refers to the joint stiffness and limited activity of the affected joint for a long time after the diseased joint is still at night. Morning stiffness is often the first symptom of joint involvement, which usually occurs before joint pain. When the condition is serious, you can feel the whole body joint stiffness, and the morning stiffness symptoms can be alleviated or disappeared after getting up or heating. Morning stiffness is often accompanied by chills and numbness of limbs or fingers (toes).
2, joint friction sound:
Because it is an orthopedic disease, it is obvious that such symptoms appear. After suffering from this disease, people's joints are greatly affected. When the patient moves the joint, he will have obvious feeling, and he can feel tiny twisting sound, such as elbow and knee, which indicates that the joint has inflammation. After the inflammation of some joints subsides, the clicking sound can be heard or felt in movable joints, especially in fingers, knees and buttocks, which may be caused by rheumatoid arthritis with hyperosteogeny.
3, joint pain and tenderness:
If we have diseases, we usually have swelling and pain, and we should also pay attention to the symptoms in our lives. After people get sick, some typical symptoms will appear in the early stage, and rheumatoid arthritis is no exception. Most patients begin with joint swelling. The swelling is caused by the increase of exudate in the joint cavity and the inflammatory changes of soft tissue around the joint, which is characterized by uniform swelling around the joint. Spindle swelling of the proximal phalanx is one of the typical symptoms of rheumatoid patients.
What are the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis? So much for the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis. I hope that through these symptoms, you can correctly understand the disease, and after suffering from the disease, you can also carry out symptomatic treatment through symptoms to help patients recover as soon as possible.
2, the 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