What medicine does osteoarthritis take
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Arthritis disease is mainly drug treatment, osteoarthritis is also the same, but we should pay attention to the use of drugs, the following I have osteoarthritis to eat what drugs and you introduce.
What medicine does osteoarthritis take
Drug one: painkillers. In order to avoid gastric mucosa damage, the drug treatment usually starts with simple analgesics (such as acetaminophen), and special attention should be paid to the adjustment of dosage for elderly patients. Patients with alcoholism or glutathione depletion disease are prone to liver injury when using acetaminophen, which should be used with caution. Analgesics is also a kind of medicine to prevent pain after getting sick, which can relieve the pain of patients, but has little effect on the treatment of the disease.
Medication 2: non steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. The excretion kinetics of NSAIDs is related to age. The elderly patients are prone to dyspepsia, upper gastrointestinal erosion, renal dysfunction and other adverse reactions. Therefore, patients with osteoarthritis must pay attention to the adverse reactions when taking NSAIDs. In addition, NSAIDs may interact with anticoagulants, oral anti hyperglycemic drugs and antihypertensive drugs, leading to adverse reactions, so it can not be used together.
Medication 3: steroid like substance of joint endothelium. Joint endothelium steroids are commonly used in the treatment of osteoarthritis, especially in patients with pain and joint exudate in inflammatory phase. Corticosteroid has only short-term analgesic effect, but the long-term effect is not ideal. The long-term effect of repeated injections of endothelium-derived steroids on cartilage is still unclear. Only when other treatments are ineffective can intra-articular cortical steroids be used.
matters needing attention
Osteoarthritis in the treatment at the same time, but also pay attention to life conditioning, to change the usual bad life and exercise habits, obese friends to lose weight.
