Osteoporosis self-examination
Osteoporosis often comes silently and is already at a serious stage when a fracture occurs. When you have the following symptoms, you should go to the hospital immediately for examination and treatment
→ Pain in the lower back when you walk or move your body.
→ Initially, you feel weakness and pain in your back or lumbar region, which gradually becomes a chronic pain, and occasionally you may have a sudden sharp pain.
→ Hunchback and gradual curvature of the back.
→ Height becomes shorter.
Drugs for prevention and treatment of osteoporosis
There are three types of drugs used to prevent and treat osteoporosis.
1.Anti-bone resorption drugs, such as calcitonin, estrogen, bisphosphonates, etc.
2, drugs to promote bone formation, such as fluoride, anabolic steroids, etc.
3, adjuvant therapeutic drugs, such as calcium preparations, vitamin D and its derivatives.
Calcitonin (MIGA injection/nasal spray), as an anti-bone resorption drug, can not only reduce the pain of osteoporosis, but also increase bone mass, improve bone quality and prevent fractures, which is ideal for osteoporosis prevention and treatment.
Factors causing osteoporosis
Osteoporosis is a disease of abnormal bone metabolism, the cause of which has not yet been clarified, but the medical profession believes that it is related to the following factors.
1, aging: one of the natural phenomena of human aging.
2, estrogen decline: estrogen will stimulate the formation of bone and inhibit the breakdown of bone. Women who have been removed from the ovaries or menopause, so that estrogen to stop or p less secretion, once the invasion of the appropriate loa umbrella.
3, nutritional disorders: calcium intake is insufficient or often eat high-protein, high-salt food or addicted to smoking, alcohol.
4, life is not normal: lack of exercise, less sunshine.
5, disease: suffering from kidney disease, liver disease, diabetes, hypertension, hyperthyroidism, rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis or certain cancers.
6, drugs: long-term use of steroids, anti-cancer drugs, diuretics, anticoagulants, stomach drugs or painkillers.