Uveitis is a group of ophthalmologically intractable diseases, mostly occurring in young and middle-aged people, which can cause great pain due to rapid onset, rapid changes, recurrent attacks, and some serious complications that can seriously affect vision and even blindness. Due to the complex etiology of this disease, it is impossible to provide targeted treatment. Currently, Western medicine mainly uses hormone or immunosuppressive therapy, but it is easy to recur and has more side effects.
In fact, uveitis itself is not terrible, usually timely detection and reasonable treatment will usually relieve and control, will not significantly affect vision and daily work life, but many people do not pay attention to it, in many places also failed to pay enough attention and reasonable treatment, many patients’ disease is delayed, causing some serious complications, resulting in late treatment difficulties, even blindness or seriously affect the quality of life.
Many patients with uveitis are well treated, but most have the possibility of relapse, which is mainly related to the fact that this disease is associated with immune abnormalities in patients, but the presence of some factors that affect their own immune function can cause a relapse of the disease.
The majority of people with iris uveitis are accompanied by other autoimmune system diseases, which are more difficult to prevent because of the immune function involved, so all you can say is that you should pay attention to the combination of work and rest, do not overwork, do not overuse your eyes, and keep your mood happy. You can use some non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs such as Pernambuline, the effect is still good. Hormonal eye solutions should not be used for a long time (such as prednisolone, flumetron, dexamethasone) can induce hormonal glaucoma.
If you are suffering from uveitis, your greatest wish is to recover as soon as possible, on the one hand by effective hormonal drugs for local control, and on the other hand by adjusting your own immunity to recover. The body’s immune system is the best “preventers and doctors” of human diseases. A strong immune system can help the body to destroy foreign bacteria and viruses and avoid diseases, and has the ability to protect the body from damage to the defense. Therefore, if there are signs of immune deficiency, it is important to take measures to improve the immune system in order to cure the disease as soon as possible.
For patients with uveitis, what can be done to improve immunity?
First, to stay away from the habits that make the immune system decline.
1, stay up late. The first thing you need to do is to go to bed early and get up early. For people with a diverse nightlife in modern times, it seems to have become a nightmare, and there are more and more people staying up late, working on the internet or enjoying the nightlife. However, staying up late can lead to lack of sleep and physical strain, resulting in a decrease in immunity. For patients with uveitis, a decreased immunity or biased immune function increases the chance of recurrence of the disease and is not conducive to early recovery. So after the disease, do not stay up late, if you do need to work later, you should also remedy the situation in time, you can take a short break at noon, or arrange a meal to enhance their immunity.
2, eat sweets. For female patients, there are many people who love to eat sweets. The study shows that under normal circumstances, the average ability of a white blood cell in the human blood to swallow germs is 14, after eating a sweet bun becomes 10, after eating a sugary snack becomes 5, after eating a creamy chocolate becomes 2. It can be seen that sweets have a certain impact on immunity. In order to get well soon, it is better not to eat or eat less sweets temporarily.
3. Smoking. Each smoke, reduce five minutes of life, which shows that smoking can cause great damage to the immune system. Smoke can make activated immune cells CD4 and lymphocytes significantly reduced, white blood cells are usually elevated, while it will reduce the ability of neutrophils to reach the site of attack. Passive smoking can absorb more harmful substances from smoke than active smoking, and smoking in women can affect the vagina, cervix and immune system, making the immune system less effective. Therefore, to love yourself, be sure to stay away from smoke.
4. Alcohol consumption: Alcohol consumption is a risk factor for the onset and recurrence of many immune diseases, including uveitis. Because alcohol consumption affects the activity of the body’s T lymphocytes, inhibiting the body’s immunity. Alcohol also suppresses the central nervous system and reduces anxiety, which to some extent increases the occurrence and recurrence of uveitis. Excessive alcohol consumption also depletes the body of a large amount of vitamin B and vitamin C, which reduces the body’s immunity. Therefore, for patients with uveitis, it is important to try to stay away from the bad habit of drinking alcohol.
Second, the diet to improve the immune system.
The first thing you need to do is to make sure that you have the right amount of food to eat. Natural beverages are appropriate.
Certain foods play a big role in improving immunity. Immune cells and immune substances are mostly made up of proteins, and immune cells need to take in more vitamins or trace elements when they divide.
1, Shiitake mushroom: Shiitake mushroom contains mushroom polysaccharide that can enhance human immunity. Mushroom, monkey head mushroom, straw mushroom, black fungus, silver fungus, carnation, lily, etc.: all have obvious immune enhancing effects.
2, fresh radish: it has immune effect due to its rich interferon inducer.
3, ginseng royal jelly: can improve the body’s immunity and endocrine regulation, and contains bee lactic acid with anti-cancer effects.
4, corn: corn contains glutathione, its antioxidant effect is 500 times stronger than vitamin E. The crude fiber contained is 6 times higher than refined rice and flour, which can prevent the formation of carcinogenic substances in the body. In addition, corn also contains carotenoids (precursors of retinoic acid), which can inhibit carcinogens.
5, tomatoes: rich in glutathione and vitamins.
6, white potatoes: containing trace elements of selenium and more crude fiber.
7, apricot: apricot is rich in vitamin A, vitamin C and flavonoids.
8, kiwi: extremely rich in vitamin C uveitis patients need to pay attention to: within two months after treatment to eat less seafood products and beef and mutton, shabu shabu hotpot, spicy food should also eat less to minimize the chances of recurrence, can be supplemented from other foods to improve immunity.
Thirdly, the immune system is improved by exercising.
Overexertion, the righteousness is lost, wind, cold and damp evil can take advantage of the weakness and enter.” The right energy inside, the evil can not dry”, “the evil of the place, its gas will be deficient” should pay attention to actively exercise, have a healthy body, a good attitude, the correct approach to life. The right amount of exercise can promote the body’s internal circulation and endocrine, promote the body’s organ function, maintain at a high level, so as to effectively improve the body’s own immunity. Pay attention to keeping warm, and enhance the body’s immune function.
Participate in moderate exercise, such as doing gymnastics, qigong, taijiquan, walking, etc. after waking up to enhance their physical fitness; jogging is the simplest and most popular fitness exercise method, but jogging should pay attention to the time and speed, generally in about 30 minutes, the speed of 150 meters per minute is appropriate. Hot summer weather, pores open, in sweating as far as possible to avoid air conditioning, not to mention the electric fan blowing, especially not to get cold in the rain; to avoid excessive fatigue, pay attention to the regularity of life, to ensure sleep time, while maintaining a happy mood.
Fourth, psychological adjustment, maintain optimism.
Some patients are triggered by mental stimulation, excessive sadness, depressed mood, etc.; and after suffering from the disease, emotional fluctuations often aggravate the disease. All these suggest that mental (or psychological) factors have some influence on the disease. Modern immunological research proves that the immune function of the body is also regulated by neurological and endocrine factors. Therefore, maintaining a normal psychological state is important to maintain the normal immune function of the body. Chinese medicine believes that the seven emotions (happiness, anger, sadness, thought, grief, fear, shock) can affect the normal function of the internal organs, mainly affecting the internal organs of the qi, so that the qi elevation is out of balance, the qi and blood function disorder, the ability to resist disease is reduced, vulnerable to external attacks and disease.
Maintaining an optimistic mood and an optimistic attitude can maintain the human body in an optimal state, but in today’s society, people are under a lot of pressure, and great psychological stress can lead to an increase in hormonal components that have a suppressive effect on the human immune system, so they are vulnerable to colds or other diseases. Especially for patients with uveitis, due to the lack of knowledge of the disease, often overly worried about the psychological and treatment costs are under great mental pressure, some even have pessimistic ideas, and therefore greatly affect the recovery of the disease. Experts say that a good positive attitude and emotions can be the equivalent of thousands of dollars of immune boosters for recovery. So for patients with uveitis to improve their immunity to clear the virus early, they need to adjust their mental state to maintain an optimistic mood, the importance of which cannot be ignored.
Fifthly, seek help from your doctor and seek medical help after the above methods.
If the resistance is still low, you must seek medical help, you can go to the hospital, let the doctor to help diagnose whether the combination of some immune diseases, you can take some measures to improve immunity, planned, targeted injection of some vaccines, the formation of protective antibodies in the body so that immunity greatly increased, in addition to vaccines can also be injected with some immunoglobulin, oral some In addition to vaccines, there are also immunoglobulin injections, oral herbal medicines to improve immunity or interferon to regulate immunity, all of which should be done according to medical advice to avoid side effects.
Therefore, patients with uveitis should pay special attention to the following points.
1, maintain optimism and passion, establish confidence in overcoming the disease, do not carry a heavy burden of thought once the disease. As long as the mood is cheerful, emotionally stable, work and rest, regular life, regular treatment, the disease can be cured.
2, find out the cause, try to avoid. If there is tonsillitis, pharyngitis, upper respiratory tract infection, should be actively treated. Avoid all kinds of strong physical and chemical stimuli, such as hair dyeing, tattoos, etc.
3.Patients should be treated regularly and do not abuse drugs.
4, the diet should be rationalized, not picky, not partial food. Avoid smoking and alcohol. Can eat more beans, coarse grains, fresh vegetables, fruits and other low-fat, vitamin-rich food.
5, more outdoor exercise, more activity, more sweating, more sunshine. Enhance physical fitness, improve the body’s ability to resist disease. It is “medicine is better than food, food is better than exercise”. Only a strong body is the medicine to resist disease.
6, consolidation treatment, essential. Some patients think that as long as the eye symptoms disappear, even if the cure no longer treatment. In reality, in many cases, the disappearance of eye symptoms only means the relief of symptoms, but the internal environment (cellular immunity, humoral immunity, microcirculation, etc.) is not necessarily adjusted to normal, at best, it can only be considered clinically cured, not cured. Therefore, after the clinical cure, it is necessary to consolidate the treatment several times. Moreover, it is important to review regularly and treat immediately if there is any sign of recurrence.