Is systemic sclerosis contagious?

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Many people think that systemic sclerosis can not be cured, because at the same time of treatment, the disease will still attack, often many people are very painful. What's going on? Because this kind of disease is a kind of connective tissue disease characterized by localized spreading skin thickening and fiber with unknown clinical reasons, can systemic sclerosis be cured? The reason why it is difficult to treat is that there is no specific medicine for this disease, and the clinical manifestations are very complex, generally including several aspects.

Is systemic sclerosis contagious?

Skin: in all cases, many of them start from skin sclerosis. First, on the fingers, the fingers gradually shine to be tight, and gradually the sweat hairs are sparse to the face and neck. The most obvious feeling of the patients is that the chest and shoulders are tight.

Bone and joint: the patient's skin is thickened or the joint is close to each other, which leads to joint spasm and contraction or limited dysfunction. Among them, the patient's movement disorder is damaged, especially in the wrist and ankle joints, there are bursts of friction.

Heart: in clinical manifestations, the involvement of the heart is still very serious, patients will appear shortness of breath, chest tightness, palpitations and edema and other symptoms. Some in clinical appear congestive heart failure, so this is also the difficulty of treatment.

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So is systemic sclerosis really hard to cure? In fact, as long as symptomatic treatment can be cured in advance, the key is to prevent Raynaud phenomenon, smoking and drinking, while maintaining normal work and rest time, to avoid too cold hands and feet.