The difference between rheumatism and cold-dampness lies in the different symptoms, different causes and different treatments.
1. Rheumatism:
(1) Symptoms of rheumatism: joint symptoms are redness, swelling and pain in the joints, and there are differences in the duration and degree of persistence, which may be wandering or fixed. Muscular symptoms will be soreness and weakness of the muscles of the extremities. Skin symptoms are rash, nodules, and hyperpigmentation. Raynaud’s phenomenon is whitening, purpling, and reddening of the fingertips of both hands on pre-cooling or change of mood.
(2) Rheumatism causes: the disease has a certain genetic factor, in addition, rheumatism is also related to the dark and damp environment.
(3) Rheumatism treatment: medication can be chosen from antirheumatic drugs such as methotrexate and leflunomide, glucocorticosteroids such as prednisone, and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs such as ibuprofen and celecoxib.
2. Cold-dampness:
(1) Symptoms of cold-dampness: patients may show symptoms such as white face, white tongue when having bad breath, runny nose, and constant sneezing when exposed to wind.
(2) Cold-dampness causes: often blowing air-conditioning, like to drink cold drinks, wearing too little, resulting in more cold-dampness gathered in the body.
(3) Cold-dampness treatment: you can choose moxibustion or cupping to improve the way, to achieve the warming of the cold, blood circulation effect.
Patients are advised to go to the rheumatology and immunology department, Chinese medicine department and other related departments for detailed consultation.