Autumn rheumatoid diet regimen
High protein suitable for rheumatoid, tea, coffee is not conducive to disease control First of all, rheumatoid arthritis patients should choose high protein, high vitamin and easy to digest food, after a reasonable nutrition and appropriate cooking, as far as possible to improve the patient’s appetite, so that the nutrition and energy in the patient’s diet can meet the needs of the body. Huang Chuanbing, Department of Rheumatology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Secondly, rheumatoid arthritis patients should not take food and stimulating food, such as chili peppers, especially rheumatoid arthritis patients in the acute phase of the patient and yin deficiency fire type of patients is best to avoid.
Sugar and fat should also be used sparingly, because the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis often choose glucocorticoids, resulting in impaired glucose metabolism, increased blood sugar, and fatty foods more viscous, can make the blood cholesterol rise, resulting in heart, brain vascular sclerosis, and the spleen and stomach function is also damaged. Rheumatoid arthritis patients should also have less salt than normal people, because too much salt intake will cause sodium retention. In addition, tea, coffee, citrus, dairy products may also aggravate the symptoms of rheumatoid patients.
Autumn rheumatoid dietary regimen — rheumatoid has different types, different dietary contraindications wind-heat type and damp-heat type: wind-heat type main symptoms are wandering joint pain, fever, sore throat, constipation, urine search red, thick coating, red tongue, pulse number or strings, blood sedimentation is also significantly faster; and damp-heat type patients can appear low-grade fever, chest tightness, poor, joint swelling and pain with fluid, red tongue, white greasy coating, smooth pulse, blood sedimentation The patient with damp-heat type may present with low fever, chest tightness, poor appetite, joint swelling and pain with effusion, red tongue, greasy coating, slippery pulse and increased blood sink.
Patients with these symptoms should use a cold diet, such as rice porridge, mung beans, raw pears, bean rolls, chrysanthemum vegetables, reed root, etc., which can help clear internal heat; and should not consume warm food, such as chili, mustard, ginger, cinnamon, wine, etc., because eating these will hurt yin and help fire and aggravate symptoms.
Cold-damp type: The main manifestations are swollen and painful joints or fluid accumulation, poor nasality, loose stools, clear and long urine, fear of cold, light tongue with white greasy coating, moist pulse, and increased blood sedimentation. Patients of this type should use some warm food, such as pork, beef, sheep bones in soup, and ginger, cinnamon, papaya, medicinal wine, etc.
Liver and kidney deficiency type: this type of patients can be manifested as joint pain deformity, muscle atrophy, tendon constriction, cold, thin, no color, light tongue with thin white coating or white greasy, pulse sinking, and blood sedimentation does not increase speed, or close to normal. This type of patients can eat more tonic food, such as turtle meat, chicken, duck, goose, pork, beef, sheep bone marrow, walnuts, cinnamon, sesame, etc.
Autumn rheumatoid diet regimen — a variety of foods can relieve rheumatoid symptoms bitter melon, bitter vegetables, horsetail, loofah and other foods, with the effect of clearing heat and detoxification, can relieve local fever, pain, etc.
Foods such as barley, tofu, celery, yam and lentils have the effect of strengthening the spleen and relieving dampness, and can be used to relieve swelling symptoms.
Snakes, worms and other foods that activate blood circulation and dispel wind and pain can be used for both cooking and drinking after making wine to relieve local symptoms of redness, swelling and heat, and can also play a role in preventing lesions from traveling to other joints, so they are foods with stronger effects.
A variety of green vegetables and fruits can meet the body’s demand for vitamins, trace elements and fiber, and also have the function of improving metabolism, which can play a role in clearing heat and detoxification, reducing swelling and pain, thus relieving the local redness and swelling and heat pain symptoms.
As a result of the recent drop in temperature, nearly 30% more rheumatoid arthritis patients are coming to the clinic than usual. Doctors remind patients that 90 percent of rheumatoid arthritis patients are sensitive to climate change, and patients should take early precautions to avoid relapses.
Rheumatoid arthritis patients in cloudy, rainy, cold, wet, joint swelling and pain increased, this is because the patient’s joints and their surrounding nerves, vascular insufficiency, vasodilation and contraction is slow, not sufficient, and the skin temperature rise and fall is slow. When the temperature decreases, the resistance to joint movement is increased due to a series of reasons such as slow blood flow in the patient, increased fibrinogen in the blood and synovial membranes, and increased levels of adrenaline in the blood, thus increasing joint pain.
The cold and wet climate and environment, and the constant stimulation of cold water can trigger rheumatism attacks or make the condition worse. Patients should pay attention to warmth and moisture in this season, underwear should be changed and washed promptly after sweating, bedding should be dried diligently, and thorough treatment should be given after catching a cold. They should wear long sleeves and pants to bed, pay attention to protecting their joints with sheaths and avoid blowing directly into the wind. When it is cloudy and rainy, the condition often intensifies, and patients should go out less at this time; on sunny days, it is advisable to spend more time outdoors in the sun, and open the windows to ventilate the air to dispel dampness. To eat more food rich in protein and vitamin C; in the symptoms are obvious, red, swollen, hot, painful joints, to avoid eating spicy, hot, dry food, such as ginger, chili, onion, mutton, dog meat, etc. should be avoided.
Exercise for rheumatoid arthritis in autumn
Rheumatoid arthritis patients in the acute phase of systemic symptoms or severe swelling of the joints, at this time should be bed rest, severe rest 1 to 2 weeks, moderate rest 5 to 7 days, pay attention to the functional position of the hand and foot joints, once the disease is alleviated, you can do some functional exercises in bed .
1.Dry bathing: bathing hands, arms, head, eyes, nose, chest, legs, knees.
2, sounding the sky drum: with the palms of both hands press the two ear holes, the middle two fingers of both hands lightly hit the back of the head occipital bone a dozen times.
3.Spinning eyes: Rotate each eye to the left and right 5 to 6 times.
4.Knock on the upper and lower teeth gently knock on each other more than 30 times.
5, drum Yi: closed mouth and clenched teeth, such as containing things in the mouth, with two ribs and tongue to do gargling action 30 times, gargling, the mouth more fluid, and then divided into three mouth full of fluid slowly swallowed.
6, rubbing waist eye: with two hands heart rubbing hot, tightly press the back waist, force to the tailbone up and down 30 times.
7, rubbing the abdomen: rub the abdomen with the palms of both hands, around the umbilicus from left to right, from right to left to do a circle rubbing.
8, rub the heart of the feet: that is, rub the heart of the feet at the Yongquan point 80 times.
Rheumatoid arthritis patients in the chronic recovery phase, appropriate some joint gymnastics, can play a role in preventing or slowing down joint stiffness, deformity.
1, finger joint exercises: alternate between fist and finger stretching, fist clenching pencils and sticks, stretching the palm of the hand and fingers flat against the desktop, or both hands together with force.
2, wrist exercises: both hands together, repeatedly flexing to the side with force, can also clutch a dumbbell to do wrist extension and flexion movement.
3, elbow joint exercises: palms up, both arms flat, quickly make a fist or elbow flexion, efforts to make the hand up to the shoulder, and then quickly extend the palm or elbow, repeatedly for many times. Then two arms to both sides of the flat, clenched fist and bend the elbow movement as before.
4, shoulder joint exercises: one arm from the same side of the front from the neck side to the back, palm touching the back, while the other arm from the same side of the side to the back, fingers touching the back, try to make the fingers of both hands in the back contact.
5, knee and hip exercises: alternate between squatting and lifting the leg forward. Repeat 10-20 times each time, 2-3 times a day.
6.Ankle joint exercise: sitting position, ankle joint flexion and extension and rotation movement on both sides respectively. In addition to the patient’s limb joint activities, you can also use equipment to achieve the purpose of moving the joints. Such as the use of dumbbells, tensioners, fingers, shoulder, knee joint movers, etc., with the weight-bearing endurance exercise, gradually restore joint function.
For patients with rheumatoid arthritis, joint gymnastics is an important measure to maintain and improve joint function, prevent deformity and ankylosis, and only by doing it consistently, differently, step by step, and combining work and rest, can we achieve the desired effect.
When exercising, you should remember to
1, try to carry out in the early stage of the disease.
2, do not start with strenuous activities, but gradually increase the amount of activity.
3, the number of daily exercise and each exercise volume should not be excessive.
4, it is best to carry out activities under the premise of local insulation.
5, do 1 to 2 times a day appropriate exercise and adhere to constantly, trying to make exercise beneficial and interesting.
What are the foods that may aggravate the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis?
In our daily diet, some foods can significantly aggravate the patient’s symptoms, if a little attention can be paid to avoid unnecessary pain and psychological stress. So, what foods can aggravate the symptoms?
1, high-fat class: fat in the body during the oxidation process, can produce ketone bodies, and too much ketone bodies, the joints have a strong stimulating effect, so patients should not eat too much high-fat food, such as milk, fatty meat, etc., frying, soup should also be less oil.
2, seafood: patients should not eat too much seafood, such as seaweed, sea cucumber, sea fish, sea shrimp, etc., because it contains uric acid, absorbed by the body, can form urate crystals in the joints, making joint symptoms worse.
3, too acidic, too salty: acidic food intake is too much, more than the body’s normal pH value, it will make the body pH value a transient deviation, so that lactic acid secretion increased, and consumption of a certain amount of calcium, magnesium plasma, and aggravate the symptoms. Similarly, if you eat too salty food such as salted vegetables, salted eggs, salted fish, etc., it will increase the sodium ion in the body, and aggravate the symptoms of patients.