Symptoms and treatment of dermatomyositis

summary

Dermatomyositis is a common skin symptom, which is a non suppurative inflammatory disease with lymphocyte infiltration. The etiology is generally considered to be related to genetic and viral infection. The main clinical features are symmetrical weakness of limb girdle muscle, neck muscle and pharyngeal muscle, and this kind of symptom often affects all organs of the body, Some will do a lot of other connective tissue disease, dermatomyositis symptoms and treatment, below I tell you.

Symptoms and treatment of dermatomyositis

Dermatomyositis symptoms are many, patients will appear morning stiffness, fatigue, loss of appetite, weight loss and other symptoms. Muscle will appear distal muscle weakness, muscle tenderness, throat involvement, but also cause dysphagia, hoarseness and other symptoms need attention.

The patient has difficulty breathing in the lungs. Involving the respiratory muscle can cause respiratory muscle weakness, serious can cause some complications, such as rapid progressive alveolitis, patients will have fever, shortness of breath, severe cough and dyspnea, etc., are common symptoms.

In addition, patients in many other aspects will have symptoms, we need to pay attention to timely treatment, mainly drug treatment. Glucocorticoids are commonly used in the treatment of idiopathic inflammatory myopathy. It is generally treated by oral administration.

matters needing attention

Immunosuppressants are also common drugs for the treatment of dermatomyositis, including methotrexate and azathioprine, etc. if the patient's symptoms are serious, it is necessary to use immunosuppressants combined with glucocorticoids.