Guidance on daily life for patients with rheumatological diseases

  1, keep a happy spirit, avoid emotional ups and downs and sentimentality. Combination of work and rest, to ensure that the night sleep, the best lunch break. The appropriate exercise such as walking, jogging and tai chi, to not feel tired, to prevent falls. For patients with ankylosing spondylitis, it is best to swim and do gymnastics. Pay attention to personal hygiene, diligently and properly wash your mouth, change your underwear, go to less crowded places, ventilate your home, do not eat unhygienic food, avoid colds, respiratory and intestinal infections, and seek medical attention promptly when a fever appears.  2. Take a balanced diet with high vitamin, high quality protein and light, avoid overeating and irritating food, and prohibit smoking and alcohol. For patients with lupus, eat as little as possible celery and figs containing psoralen, fresh mushrooms, smoked food and pods containing hydrazine, etc. Use less or no sulfonamides, tetracycline antibiotics, contraceptives containing estrogen or mixed preparations of estrogen and progestin. For gout patients should be careful not to eat animal offal, seafood and other foods with high purine content.  Patients with lupus and dermatomyositis should not be exposed to sunlight, avoid using irritating cosmetics and head oil, avoid using alkaline soap and ointment for the face, and do not dye hair, tattoo eyebrows or silicone breast implants. However, for patients with osteoporosis of various arthritis should be more sunbathing, but do not sunburn.  4. Long-term hormone users: (1) hormones should not be stopped suddenly, but only gradually reduced under the guidance of a physician; (2) for stable conditions, hormones should preferably be taken at 8:00 a.m.; (3) if there is surgery, childbirth or trauma, the hormone dosage should be temporarily increased; (4) low salt (sodium <3g/d), low-fat diet, especially to control animal fat intake and reduce the intake of spicy foods; (5) high blood sugar should limit the intake of staple foods. (5) Those with high blood glucose should limit staple foods (rice buns, etc.), sweets and snacks to those containing less sugar and higher fiber, and self-monitor blood glucose and make diet records.  (6) Drink more chrysanthemum tea or mung bean porridge, eat more fresh cucumber, cooked garlic, potassium-rich oranges, oranges and tomatoes, and eat more calcium-rich milk, cheese and shrimp skin, but those with abdominal distension and pain should control gas-producing milk or chocolate. Those with obvious edema and low urine output can take a decoction of 40 grams of dried watermelon peel and 60 grams of fresh thatch root together to help eliminate edema and diuresis.