Symptoms of rheumatism in the elderly

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When it comes to rheumatism, I believe everyone is familiar with it. The main incidence group of this disease is the middle-aged and elderly people, which has a lot to do with their living habits. They don't pay attention to keeping warm when they are young, and it is easy to cause rheumatism when they get older. Rheumatism is very common, but what are its symptoms? This is a problem that many people are concerned about. Let's take a look at the symptoms of rheumatism in the elderly? Let's talk about it

Symptoms of rheumatism in the elderly

Joint swelling and pain: many people have experienced joint pain. In the warm and cold season, people often have joint pain, heavy joints and muscle acid, which is one of the symptoms of rheumatism.

Fever: fever can be low fever, moderate fever, or high fever, often manifested as irregular fever, no shivering, ineffective antibiotics, and rapid ESR. Joint deformity and dysfunction: This refers to that the joint has no normal shape, and the range of motion is limited, such as the knee joint can not be fully extended, the metacarpophalangeal joint of the hand has ulnar deviation, joint subluxation, etc.

Fatigue: This is the most common symptom of rheumatism, in severe cases can make patients lose labor. Joint stiffness: this situation is mainly manifested in the morning just get up or rest for a long period of time, the joint has a very stiff feeling, after the initiative can ease or disappear.

matters needing attention

Rheumatism in the early symptoms are many, patients should pay more attention to, to pay attention to their own health problems, due to the difficulty of rheumatism treatment, so early detection of disease, early treatment is also a key step, must not delay the treatment of rheumatism, so as not to increase the difficulty of follow-up treatment.