Biologics are generally more effective in treating rheumatoid arthritis, but the specifics vary from person to person. Biological agents for rheumatoid arthritis have both immediate and long-term effects.
1. Immediate efficacy: After using biological agents, the clinical symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis such as pain, swelling and morning stiffness can be relieved in a relatively short period of time, and the indexes such as blood sedimentation and C-reactive protein also decrease.
2. Long-term efficacy: for rheumatoid arthritis patients in the long term can play a role in bone protection.
In addition, the adverse effects of biologics are generally small, mainly in the injection site of local skin rashes, there are some long-term use of patients may be infected, lymphatic system tumors and so on.
Rheumatoid arthritis patients are advised to go to the rheumatology and immunology department of the regular hospital, under the guidance of the doctor to standardize the diagnosis and treatment, according to the specific circumstances of the choice of therapeutic drugs, do not self-medication.