Fever caused by rheumatoid arthritis can be treated by symptomatic therapy and treatment of the primary disease. For example, using physical cooling or drug cooling to lower the temperature, and at the same time using penicillin and other drugs to treat the primary disease.
1. Symptomatic treatment: For the fever caused by rheumatoid arthritis, it is necessary to take symptomatic treatment to lower the temperature firstly. If the body temperature is lower than 38.5 ℃, you can use physical cooling methods, such as using warm water to wipe the body or use antipyretic patches. If the body temperature exceeds 38.5 ℃ can also follow the doctor’s instructions to apply antipyretic drugs, such as ibuprofen suspension can play a role in reducing fever.
2. Treatment of primary diseases: rheumatoid arthritis fever is caused by streptococcal infection, so the use of infection control drugs, such as penicillin treatment as prescribed by the doctor. If you are allergic to penicillin, use erythromycin or cephalosporin antibiotics under doctor’s advice.
Rheumatoid arthritis caused by fever, it is recommended to go to the hospital in time, under the guidance of the doctor for medication.