What disease is rheumatoid factor tall

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Rheumatoid arthritis is a systemic disease that seriously damages the hand and foot joints of patients. It can cause joint deformity and affect the walking of patients. As for the diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis, many people know that patients will have high rheumatoid factor through examination. Let me talk about what is high rheumatoid factor.

What disease is rheumatoid factor tall

Generally speaking, most rheumatoid patients have high level of rheumatoid factor (RF) in the active period, but high level of RF (that is, RF positive) can also be seen in chronic infection, such as hepatitis, tuberculosis, and other connective tissue diseases and normal elderly people, so high level of RF is not necessarily rheumatoid arthritis.

If you want to diagnose rheumatoid arthritis, you should have some of the following symptoms: morning stiffness, three or more joint swelling, symmetrical joint swelling. Rheumatoid factor positive and so on, so to diagnose rheumatoid arthritis need to be combined with other aspects of symptoms to diagnose, can not only judge the condition by rheumatoid factor high.

Once diagnosed with rheumatoid, then you can choose different treatments according to the condition, such as mild can be some joint function exercise, or physical therapy or external medicine, for obvious pain, you can choose some non steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, slow acting anti rheumatic drugs, immunosuppressants, immune and biological agents and plant medicine treatment, can control the disease well.

matters needing attention

Rheumatism is very harmful to the health of patients, so when we check the rheumatoid factor is high, we need to be alert to rheumatoid disease, such as the diagnosis of the disease must be treated in time, and do a good job of nursing, especially pay attention to the warmth of the joints, in order to prevent aggravating symptoms.