What is rheumatoid arthritis: Rheumatoid arthritis is a systemic disease with chronic, non-suppurative inflammation of multiple joints as the main manifestation. Second, the etiology: 1, genetic. 2, infection factors: play a significant role in triggering the disease. 3, body sex hormones, glucocorticoids, stress response may have an impact on the development of the disease. Pathology: Synovitis, vasculitis, cartilage destruction of joints. Clinical manifestations: The disease often starts in small joints, mostly invading small joints of the extremities, and is more common in the fingers, metatarsal toes and wrist joints of both hands, with painful joint swelling, symmetric pain, inability to move, and morning stiffness (due to the accumulation of edema fluid in the inflammatory tissues during sleep or reduced movement, causing swelling of the tissues around the joints. After the patient moves, the edema fluid is absorbed by the lymphatic vessels and small veins as the muscles contract, and the morning stiffness is relieved). It may be accompanied by general malaise, malaise, hypothermia, and loss of appetite. Painful swelling predominates in the early stage and manifests as deformity in the late stage. Both hands cannot be washed, and the quality of life is significantly reduced. Five, rheumatoid arthritis treatment: 1, must be early; if not treated early, 1-2 years of bone and joint destruction, irreversible. 2, combined; fast-acting drugs painkillers, glucocorticoids. Slow-acting drugs MTX, SASP, can reduce the condition, 1-3 months to take effect, 6-12 months to reach the peak, need to adhere to long-term medication. Do not stop the medication without permission. The rheumatoid arthritis can be cured: the cause and pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis has not been fully elucidated, on the whole, and hypertension, diabetes, is based on genetic susceptibility, external factors promote a class of diseases, there is no cure. The so-called cure is to remove the cause of the disease and cure it. The cause of rheumatoid arthritis is not yet known, let alone removed. Current research suggests that rheumatoid arthritis is related to genetic factors. In addition, rheumatoid arthritis, as an autoimmune disease, is associated with the development of abnormal antigenic antibody reactions, and immunosuppressive drugs can only inhibit antigenic antibody reactions, keeping them at low levels but not removing them. Some patients see some advanced rheumatoid arthritis patients, because of joint deformity, ankylosis, life can not take care of themselves, the concern is very heavy, this is unnecessary. As long as there is active cooperation between doctors and patients, early diagnosis, early treatment, and perseverance, the progress of the disease can generally be controlled, and can work and live normally.