Swelling of the hand is a symptom from the wrist to the fingertips of the parts of the limitation or the whole volume becomes bigger, the local tension becomes bigger, can be caused by a variety of reasons, such as rheumatic immune diseases, skin diseases, part of the mechanical compression factors also have a certain relationship.
1. Rheumatic immune diseases: such as rheumatoid arthritis, can involve the interphalangeal joints, metacarpophalangeal joints, wrist joints, etc., manifested as the affected joints and the surrounding tissues of the swelling, stiffness, pain and other symptoms.
2. Skin diseases: if the hand skin has allergies, urticaria and other skin diseases, can be observed from the appearance of hand swelling, skin diseases caused by hand swelling is not related to time.
3. Mechanical compression factors: such as sleep pressure on one side of the arm, the hand blood reflux is not good, nerve numbness, hand swelling can occur.
There may be other reasons for hand swelling, such as trauma, gout, osteoarthritis and some pregnant women sleep at night there will be hand swelling, if hand swelling persists unabated, or accompanied by hand joints enlarged or deformed, or previous history of coronary heart disease, renal insufficiency and other medical history of hand swelling should be timely medical attention.