Although ankylosing spondylitis is a chronic, progressive, disabling rheumatic disease, proper treatment, as well as adjustments in lifestyle habits and appropriate exercise, can completely stop or delay the progression of the disease to disability. 1, ankylosing spondylitis treatment of several misconceptions 1, many patients with ankylosing spondylitis in the attack, to the hospital to intravenous drip penicillin (which adds dexamethasone) to relieve pain symptoms, this is the wrong therapy. Because penicillin is not effective for ankylosing spondylitis, and which relieves pain symptoms is the effect of dexamethasone. As a hormone, dexamethasone is very harmful in the treatment of ankylosing spondylitis. 2, to Hong Kong or Macau pharmacies to buy the treatment of rheumatic diseases “special drugs”. These drugs are composed of hormones, anti-inflammatory pain and vitamins, if purchased in mainland pharmacies, each tablet contains “1 cent of hormones + 2 cents of anti-inflammatory pain + 2 cents of vitamins”, but “illegally” mix several drugs together, it costs several hundred dollars in Hong Kong dollars 1 bottle. These drugs are mostly printed with the words “made in the United States” or “made in Germany”, but in the United States and Germany, there are no pharmacies in the treatment of rheumatism “special drugs”, only in the Asian Only in the Chinese community in Asia can we buy them. Although these drugs have a strong effect on pain and swelling, they cannot control the disease and have a lot of side effects with long-term use. On the one hand, the side effects of hormones, on the other hand, the stomach irritation and kidney side effects of anti-inflammatory pain. 3, listen to the advertisement, mistakenly fall into the trap of charlatan doctors, not only money cheated, but also delay the disease. The other is the so-called “proprietary Chinese medicine” containing hormones or other western drugs, which are mostly under the guise of “secret recipes” or “patented scientific research results”, with the inconvenience of publicizing the formula as an excuse to make the hospital’s own products. The so-called “proprietary Chinese medicines” are mostly made under the guise of “secret recipes” or “patented scientific research results”, with the excuse that it is inconvenient to disclose the formulas, and made into homemade “proprietary Chinese medicines” in hospitals, and they also swear to guarantee that they do not contain western drugs and have no side effects. The first thing you need to do is not only to relieve pain, but also to relieve the condition. Therefore, its treatment requires not only pain relief, but more importantly, control of the condition, improvement and restoration of the function of the spinal joints, stopping the progression of the condition to joint dysfunction and preventing progression to disability. Until the 1960s, ankylosing spondylitis was known as the “central form of rheumatoid arthritis” because they shared some common features: they were chronic and disabling diseases; the pain was more pronounced at night; the stiffness and pain were more pronounced when waking up in the morning and lessened with activity; and hormones and anti-inflammatory painkillers were effective in relieving symptoms. The difference is only that ankylosing spondylitis is mainly in the spine and large joints; rheumatoid arthritis is mainly in the peripheral joints. Therefore, the former is the “central type” and the latter is the “peripheral type”. Later, as medical research progressed, it was discovered that these two diseases have different susceptibility genes and different pathological bases, and are actually two diseases, not two types of one disease. However, there are some similarities in the treatment of ankylosing spondylitis and rheumatoid arthritis. Methotrexate, salazosulfapyridine, Erofloxacin, torch root tablets, and tretinoin are effective for both ankylosing spondylitis and rheumatoid arthritis, while hydroxychloroquine is effective only for rheumatoid arthritis but not for ankylosing spondylitis; azathioprine and cyclophosphamide are often used for severe and persistent rheumatoid arthritis but less often for ankylosing spondylitis. In any case, medication for ankylosing spondylitis must be administered under the supervision of a specialist. The reason is that drugs that relieve the condition have certain toxic side effects, scientific use of drugs can obtain the maximum efficacy and the lowest side effects, while blind use of drugs is dangerous. If you have the misfortune to have ankylosing spondylitis, you must first have the confidence to subdue the disease. You need to be prepared to live with it for a long time, but also to prevent being destroyed by it. On the one hand, you need to seek treatment from a rheumatologist to control the disease, not just to relieve inflammation and pain; on the other hand, you need to pay attention to your own health care and functional exercises to prevent deformation and ankylosis of the spine and joints. In terms of self-care, the first thing is to sleep in a straight posture to prevent scoliosis, with a firm mattress and low pillow to prevent hunchback. Work often change position, for example, do not use the computer for too long, every 1 to 2 hours to get up and move a little, especially the cervical activities; long-distance drivers to rest, get out of the car to move the waist, do stretching exercises. Usually we should move more, not always lying in bed, more activities of the lumbar and cervical spine, more chest expansion exercises, more hip extension and flexion exercises. If you adhere to the morning and evening (before and after going to bed) each do a radio gymnastics, certainly have the benefit. Pay attention to avoid or timely treatment of various infections in life, especially intestinal infections, urinary tract infections and throat infections, all of which may lead to aggravation of the disease.