What symptom is rheumatism

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Recently, a friend of mine is very distressed, because his mother suffered from rheumatism, severe hand and foot pain, suffering to death, and my friend is also very anxious, which makes me understand that if I suffer from a disease, it's easy to treat it in the early stage, but it's difficult to get better later, so what are the early symptoms of rheumatism? Let's have a look at these experiences.

What symptom is rheumatism

Symptom 1: characteristics of joint performance: (1) joint pain. (2) after getting up in the morning or resting for a long time, the joints of patients with morning stiffness are sticky like stiffness, which can be relieved or disappeared after activity. Morning stiffness in rheumatoid arthritis is the most prominent, can last for several hours, in other arthritis is shorter. (3) joint swelling and tenderness often appear in painful joints, which are signs of synovitis or peripheral soft tissue inflammation. The degree varies with the severity of inflammation. It can be caused by joint cavity effusion or synovial hypertrophy. Osteoproliferative hypertrophy is more common in osteoarthritis. (4) joint deformity and dysfunction: loss of the normal shape and range of motion of the finger joint, such as incomplete extension of the knee, ulnar deviation of the metacarpophalangeal joint of the hand, subluxation of the joint, etc. These changes are related to the destruction of cartilage and bone. It is common in rheumatoid arthritis.

Symptom 2: the characteristics of systemic symptoms: we should grasp the manifestations of other extraarticular systems to diagnose. For example, butterfly skin rash and proteinuria on the cheek indicate systemic lupus erythematosus, psoriasis rash indicates psoriatic arthritis, and a large number of caries indicate Sjogren's syndrome. For example, ankylosing spondylitis is more common in young men, systemic lupus erythematosus is more common in women of childbearing age, gout is more common in middle-aged men, and osteoarthritis is more common in middle-aged and elderly people.

Symptom 3: Although the disability rate of this disease is relatively high, if early diagnosis and early treatment are obtained, its development can be controlled or even cured. Therefore, if we can popularize the general knowledge of this disease, doctors and patients with joint swelling and pain symptoms can keep enough vigilance for this disease, we can improve the level of diagnosis and treatment, control the development of the disease, reduce the disability rate and increase the ability to work. It's good to take part in physical exercises or productive labor, such as health gymnastics, qigong, Taijiquan, radio gymnastics and walking. People who insist on physical exercise have strong body, strong resistance to disease, and seldom get sick. Their ability to resist the invasion of wind, cold and dampness is much stronger than those who have not received physical exercise《 It is exactly this truth that the Internal Classic of internal medicine says that "the healthy qi exists in the internal, and the evil can not be done", "the evil is gathered together, and the Qi will be empty".

matters needing attention

Compared with many common diseases, the research of rheumatic diseases started late, and most of the etiology and pathogenesis are not very clear. It has been known that there are many causes, including: infectious: gonococcal arthritis, tuberculous arthritis, Lyme disease arthritis, etc. Autoimmunity: such as lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis, scleroderma, etc. Metabolic: such as gout. Endocrine: such as acromegaly, hyperthyroidism.