Systemic scleroderma symptoms?

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Systemic scleroderma is systemic sclerosis, which can be divided into localized disease and diffuse scleroderma. After the onset of the disease, the skin will become very good, and the skin tissue will fibrosis. The disease is an autoimmune disease. After the disease, the patient's blood vessels will have onion skin like changes. Because this kind of disease can cause the skin to harden unceasingly, thus has the compression to the blood vessel, thus can cause the blood vessel ischemia. The heart, lungs and digestive tract of people with severe delay of the disease are seriously affected. Let's take a look at the following.

Systemic scleroderma symptoms?

First: systemic scleroderma has no specific drugs to treat. In the early stage of the disease, the main treatment is to actively organize the sclerotic skin to affect the internal organs of people. When the disease reaches the late stage, the main purpose of treatment is to actively improve the symptoms of patients, improve the quality of life of patients in the late stage, and reduce the pain of patients in the late stage.

Second: immunosuppressants for scleroderma treatment is relatively rare, commonly used drugs are cyclophosphamide and cyclosporine A. Penicillamine can also be used in the treatment of this disease. This substance has a good inhibitory effect on the maturation of skin new collagen, and can even make the collagen fibers gradually degrade. Therefore, patients with scleroderma can choose this drug treatment.

Third: systemic scleroderma can be taken after the onset of general treatment measures, such as the use of glucocorticoids and some immunosuppressants. However, glucocorticoids for the treatment of this disease is not very significant. In the early stages of the disease, there is edema, joint pain, and sometimes muscle pain. For such patients can be treated with prednisone.

matters needing attention

Systemic scleroderma is a disease in which the incidence rate of female is higher than that of male. Generally speaking, this disease is rare in children, and more about adults. He is very slow in progress, but if not treated, it can lead to sudden death.