Suffering from chronic diseases is a very painful thing, depression of the disease will lead to aggravation of the disease; daily life is not good at protecting themselves, but also easy to aggravate the disease. How to carry out psychological adjustment and daily life care, what to eat, what not to eat, what sports can be carried out, those details of life help the disease recovery …… is very worthy of the patient’s attention things.
Only a healthy and positive attitude, with formal treatment, supplemented by good habits and appropriate physical exercise, in order to make their own faster recovery.
1, rheumatism diet principles
What food can be eaten, what food can not be eaten, is the most important concern in our daily lives. We put some dietary principles to tell you.
1, nutrition should be rich: do not can refuse this or that food, because a variety of food together can be coordinated with each other in order to nutritional balance, so that you can also taste a variety of delicious, is not a very happy thing.
2. Keep your weight within the normal range, too much weight will bring unnecessary burden to your joints. Please avoid eating too much sugar and drinking too much alcohol, both of which are not nutritious and will make you gain weight.
3. Choose foods that contain less saturated fat and cholesterol, both of which are not healthy elements. Avoid fried foods and choose low-fat milk or skim milk. Try to eat less ice cream.
4, the diet should contain a lot of vegetables, fruits and cereals.
5, do not eat too salty food: salt can cause the accumulation of water in the body, thus causing an increase in blood pressure.
6.Make a habit of drinking a lot of water: sufficient water can enhance the function of intestinal tract and help the body excrete the metabolism of drugs.
7.For patients with SLE, certain things such as celery and figs containing psoralen, mushrooms containing hydrazine groups, smoked food, alfalfa-like seeds and pods containing L-cabbage, and penicillin sulfonamides can induce photosensitivity and aggravate the rash of lupus erythematosus, which should be avoided as much as possible.
8 Patients with dry syndrome should eat more foods that nourish Yin and clear heat and produce fluid, such as loofah, celery, red stemmed vegetables, yellow cauliflower, wolfberry head, celery, light vegetables and other cool foods. Fruits such as watermelon, sweet orange, fresh pear, fresh lotus root, etc., can also be sweet and cold to produce fluid. Dry mouth can often contain plums, Tibetan green fruit, or often drink lime juice, lemon juice and other thirst-quenching drinks. Should avoid eating spicy hot drinks and food to prevent dryness and injury, aggravating the disease.
2, rheumatism rehabilitation exercise
The results of a joint survey of several foreign hospitals show that patients with rheumatoid arthritis strength exercises and low-intensity aerobic exercises, the effect on improving symptoms is very significant. Patients who received training feel a significant improvement in mental status, joint function has been restored to a certain extent, so patients actively exercise machine functional exercise to help the recovery of the disease, improve the quality of life is of great significance.
The forms of rehabilitation exercises include joint exercises, muscle exercises and endurance exercises.
Joint exercises: These are exercises in which the joints perform various movements, such as rotation, flexion, extension, etc., within the maximum range of motion allowed. This exercise includes the movement of each joint in all directions. The purpose is to relieve stiffness of the joint, reduce pain, maintain flexibility of the joint, and improve the function of the joint. However, during the acute inflammatory phase, rest should be the main focus when joint swelling and pain are evident.
Exercises for muscles: Exercises for muscles not only increase strength, but also reduce muscle fatigue and play a role in stabilizing joints.
Exercises for endurance: mainly refers to aerobic exercises. It refers to a number of low-intensity, long-duration continuous exercise, including walking, strolling, swimming, gymnastics, cycling, etc.. According to a Dutch experiment on exercise therapy, it was found that such dynamic exercises would not only increase joint mobility but also increase physical fitness.
Traditional qigong, taijiquan, eight duanjin, gymnastics, etc. are all very good forms of exercise.
3.Psychological health
The psychological changes of patients are related to their past personality, disease, disease duration, treatment effect, economic strength, social status and family relationship. I believe there are many patients have this experience: just the onset of the disease, whether diagnosed or not, but as soon as you hear the doctor say that there is no cure for the disease, you will start to look around, as soon as you hear where to treat, at any cost, long distance travel, at any cost, to find the “real”; or read a lot of medical books, the more you look at the results, the more scared. As if suffering from a terminal disease, all day long, fear and anxiety.
As rheumatic diseases themselves are a chronic disease, easy to relapse, a variety of uncomfortable symptoms often affect the normal life, study and work. Imagine what it is like to be an energetic person who can now only sit or lie down, unable to carry out normal life and work? So some patients will show sensitivity, suspicious, easily agitated, anxiety, depression and even paranoia. This psychological disorder is not conducive to the recovery of the disease. Therefore, it should be recognized that rheumatism is a long-term chronic process, should maintain a relaxed mood and a positive attitude toward life. Besides, rheumatism is not a terminal disease, and most of them can be controlled after systematic treatment.
A good psychological state can restore the body’s immune function to normal. Psychological treatment is not a few words here alone, in fact, many issues are well understood, but do often can not control themselves. If there is a big change, it is necessary to visit the psychological clinic in time. In addition, family and friends should give the patient more counseling and comfort is also very important for the patient’s psychological recovery.