Clinical symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis

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My father is a sheep herder. He has to go out twice a day to let the sheep eat grass, and it's very far away, at least three hours. Most of the time of the day is outside. It's windy in winter and rainy in summer. Now he's old and always has leg pain. The doctor says it's rheumatoid arthritis. Today, let me share the clinical symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis with you.

Clinical symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis

Symptoms 1, joint swelling and tenderness: often appear in painful joints, is a sign of synovitis or peripheral soft tissue inflammation, the degree of inflammation varies with the severity. It can be caused by joint cavity effusion or synovial hypertrophy. Osteoproliferative hypertrophy is more common in osteoarthritis.

Symptom 2, fatigue: fatigue refers to the decline or loss of muscle strength. Because fatigue often appears with other symptoms, such as pain, morning stiffness, fatigue, etc., patients sometimes can not distinguish what is fatigue. When the patient is unable to complete walking, chewing, swallowing and other movements, the patient will find that they have fatigue symptoms.

Third, fatigue: fatigue is one of the most common symptoms of rheumatism, and even makes the patient unable to complete daily activities when it is serious. Fatigue occurs in both inflammatory and non inflammatory diseases, such as RA and fibromyalgia syndrome.

matters needing attention

Usually pay attention to prevention and treatment, reduce or eliminate the influence of various inducing factors, in order to ensure stable recovery of the disease, no recurrence.