What is rheumatoid

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Grandma always has rheumatoid arthritis, often cloudy when joint pain, but this disease can not take medicine to do surgery can be good, can only slowly recuperate, mother often give grandma to eat some hot tonic, let's say fortune telling is rheumatoid.

What is rheumatoid

First: rheumatoid arthritis, also known as rheumatoid arthritis, is a chronic systemic inflammatory disease with unknown etiology. At present, it is recognized that rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease. It may be related to endocrine, metabolism, nutrition, geography, occupation, psychological and social environment differences, bacterial and viral infection and genetic factors. Chronic, symmetrical, multiple synovial arthritis and extraarticular lesions are the main clinical manifestations, which belong to autoimmune inflammatory diseases.

Second: clinical manifestations: recurrent, symmetrical and multiple facet arthritis is the most common in the joints of hands, fingers, palms, wrists and toes; in the early stage, there are redness, swelling, heat, pain and dysfunction; in the late stage, there are different degrees of stiffness and deformity of joints, and bone and skeletal muscle atrophy, which is a disease with high disability rate; from the perspective of pathological changes, rheumatoid arthritis is the most common Arthritis is a kind of extensive inflammatory disease which mainly involves synovium, then serosa, heart, lung and eye.

Third: the main symptoms, morning stiffness: Joint morning stiffness is obvious in the morning, relieved in the afternoon; pain and tenderness: joint pain is often the earliest symptom, the most common parts are wrist, metacarpophalangeal joint, proximal interphalangeal joint, followed by toe, knee, ankle, elbow, shoulder and other joints; joint deformity: seen in more advanced patients, muscle atrophy around the joint, spasm makes the deformity worse.

matters needing attention

Rheumatoid arthritis is a kind of arthritis, mainly maintenance, I think grandma usually pay attention to keep warm, even if it's hot in summer, it doesn't matter, will not be greedy for cold air conditioning, now grandma's rheumatism is much better than before.