1.What is rheumatism?
Rheumatism refers to a large group of diseases that invade the skeletal muscle system (such as joints, muscles, ligaments, tendons, bursae, etc.), with pain as the main manifestation.
2.Which diseases belong to rheumatic diseases?
Rheumatic diseases are a large concept, a group of diseases, and the diseases we usually meet, such as rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, ankylosing spondylitis, dry syndrome, osteoarthritis is only a specific disease, is a large category of rheumatic diseases.
3, why will suffer from rheumatism?
This is a matter of great concern to everyone. But this problem is not very clear so far. It is only related to the environment, genetics, immunity, infection and several other aspects.
4.What discomfort can occur in rheumatic diseases?
Rheumatic immune diseases are complex and the symptoms vary from person to person.
The following are the common symptoms of the disease.
(1) Fever: high fever and persistent low fever are present.
(2) Pain: swelling and pain in joints and muscles, pain in the extremities, neck and shoulders, lower back, heel pain, etc.
(3) Skin symptoms: rash, photosensitivity, oral and vulvar ulcers, eye symptoms, reticular bruising, skin ulcers.
(4) Morning stiffness: refers to the stiffness and tightness of the joints when the patient wakes up early in the morning, which can mostly be improved after activity.
(5) Raynaud’s phenomenon: whitening of the finger (toe) ends when exposed to cold or emotional agitation, followed by purple, red or accompanied by numbness and pain at the finger (toe) ends, and in severe cases, skin ulceration;.
(6) muscle weakness.
5.What is rheumatoid arthritis (RA)?
Rheumatoid arthritis is a multi-systemic autoimmune inflammatory disease of unknown etiology that mainly involves peripheral joints. Its main clinical features are symmetrical, chronic swelling, pain, morning stiffness and dysfunction with peripheral joint damage.
6.What are the consequences of untreated rheumatoid arthritis?
Joint deformities are most common in patients with RA without formal treatment. And the pain, swelling and dysfunction of the joints seriously affect daily life and quality of life. In addition, the systemic damage outside the joints can affect the patient’s quality of life and life expectancy!
7.What is ankylosing spondylitis?
AS is a chronic progressive systemic inflammatory disease that predominantly invades the medial joints (e.g. sacroiliac joints, hip joints and spine). Occult lower back pain is the most characteristic early symptom. It is a dull pain that is difficult to locate and is often felt deep in the buttocks or sacroiliac region. Nighttime pain is also an obvious symptom, and often the patient needs to get out of bed and wait for pain relief before going back to sleep. It is more common in young and middle-aged men.
8.Does AS have lung, liver and kidney damage?
AS is invasive to internal organs. Common lung damage, such as solid lung lesions. Kidney: asymptomatic hematuria can occur. In addition, for men with AS, the incidence of prostatitis is higher than the general population.
9. What is the disease of SLE?
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease that involves multiple systems and organs, with complex clinical manifestations and a recurrent and prolonged course. It occurs in women of childbearing age. It is associated with irregular fever, weight loss, erythema, photosensitivity, Raynaud’s phenomenon, arthralgias, and severe involvement of internal organs.
10.Is there any relationship between dry mouth, dry eyes and dry syndrome?
Dry syndrome (SS) is a kind of chronic inflammatory autoimmune disease in which the exocrine glands (such as lacrimal gland and salivary gland) of the whole body are involved, and the common symptoms include dry eyes, dry mouth, no sweating, dry stool, etc. It often involves many systems of the whole body. Because its performance is mainly dry, it is named dry syndrome.
11.Can I use painkillers alone for the treatment of rheumatic immune diseases?
No, the treatment of rheumatic diseases requires the combined application of symptom relieving drugs (i.e. painkillers and hormones) and condition controlling drugs (i.e. commonly used Pavlin, Leflunomide, Methotrexate, Raglan, etc.).
12.Why do I still need long-term medication after the symptoms are controlled?
So far, most rheumatic immune diseases cannot be cured and require long-term, or even lifelong, medication, and symptom relief only means that the disease is controlled, but not completely cured. Symptom reduction only means that the disease is under control, but not completely cured. Only a longer period of application of disease-controlling drugs (slow-acting drugs) can slow down or stop the progress of the above process.
13.Why do we need regular checkups?
To assess the efficacy, adjust the treatment plan and monitor the toxic side effects of drugs to achieve the least side effects and the best efficacy.
14.How to treat advertised drugs and prescriptions?
Many doctors under the banner of “ancestral secret recipes” often add hormones to traditional Chinese medicine to make the so-called “secret recipes”. The long-term use of large doses of hormone drugs will delay the treatment of patients and bring serious consequences to their health, even endangering their lives. Choose regular medical treatment, is to choose health!
15.Does rheumatic immune disease need exercise? How about exercise?
Exercise is needed! The main purpose is to maintain the body’s motor function and prevent muscle atrophy. Soft and stretching exercises should be the main focus. Exercises should be mild, aerobic, gradual yoga, tai chi, jogging, brisk walking, backward walking, radio gymnastics, etc. It is not suitable for strenuous impact exercises.
16.What are the dietary contraindications of rheumatism?
Principles of diet.
(1) nutrition should be balanced: not fatty, spicy, tobacco and alcohol; meat and vegetables, nutrition balance, no need to deliberately avoid eating a certain food.
(2) choose low oil and low fat food: avoid practical fried food, can consume low-fat and non-fat high calcium milk.
(3) Drink more water; eat more vegetables and fruits.
(4) Do not eat too salty food: taking hormones together can cause water and sodium retention.
Absolutely no smoking, drinking alcohol! To eat more high-quality animal protein and low-fat, low-salt, low-sugar, vitamin-rich and calcium-rich food; seafood, mutton, dog meat, venison, cinnamon garden and other hot and spicy hair best eat less; spicy food, such as chili peppers, raw onions, raw garlic, etc., but also eat less some celery, cilantro and other light allergy food to eat less.