Symptoms of severe rheumatoid arthritis

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My uncle is suffering from severe rheumatoid arthritis. This disease is not young. Now he is in a wheelchair. He went to the hospital for surgery the year before last, and it has also developed very well. In the past two years, his condition has become serious again. Now I will tell you some symptoms of severe rheumatoid arthritis.

Symptoms of severe rheumatoid arthritis

For this disease, should be timely to the regular hospital for examination and treatment, to avoid causing more serious harm to the body. Rheumatoid arthritis is a systemic autoimmune disease. Due to the abnormal autoimmunity, the human body will produce a large number of antibodies against its own cells, and a lot of cytokines. When it is serious, there will be serious joint symptoms with systemic damage.

There are a large number of rheumatoid nodules in joints, and rheumatoid nodules can also appear in organs of the whole body. Synovitis of joints will aggravate and damage bone and cartilage, eventually leading to joint deformity and joint dysfunction. If the spine is involved, it can also cause ankylosis of the spine.

In daily life, we should understand some of the symptoms of this disease. Morning stiffness, as the name suggests, is the subjective feeling of joint inflexibility when getting up in the morning. It is a manifestation of arthritis, and the duration of morning stiffness is proportional to the severity of rheumatoid arthritis.

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For patients with rheumatoid arthritis this disease should be timely to the regular hospital for examination and treatment, at the same time in daily life should correct bad habits. Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic, inflammatory synovitis based systemic disease of unknown etiology. The disease can easily lead to joint deformity and loss of function. The pathogenesis of rheumatoid diseases may be related to heredity, infection and sex hormones.