Symptoms of Raynaud's syndrome?

Update Date: 2024-06-08 Source: Network

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Raynaud's phenomenon, also known as Scherrer's syndrome, is a spasmodic disease of acrosmal arterioles caused by vascular and neurological dysfunction. Paroxysmal limbs (mainly fingers) symmetrical intermittent attacks, cyanosis and flushing as its clinical characteristics, often caused by emotional excitement or cold. Symptoms of Raynaud's syndrome? Let's talk about it

Symptoms of Raynaud's syndrome?

Most of them occurred in 20-40 years old, and the female was more than the male. Onset is slow, onset in winter, time is short, gradually appear cold or emotional can attack. Generally, it is a symmetrical attack of both hands and fingers, and it can also occur in toes.

When the attack, cold hands and feet, numbness, occasional pain. Typical attack, to metacarpophalangeal joint as the boundary, fingers cold, pale, purple, and then flush. In the late stage of the disease, the sweat hairs on the back of the fingers gradually disappear, the nails grow slowly, coarsely and deform, the skin shrinks, thins and tightens (scleroderma fingers), and ulcers form around the fingertips or nail beds, which can cause infection.

The course of disease is generally slow, a few patients progress faster, frequent attacks, severe symptoms, accompanied by finger (toe) swelling, each attack lasts more than 1 hour, slightly lower ambient temperature, slightly emotional can be induced. In severe cases, even in warm seasons, the symptoms do not disappear, and there are nutritional changes at the fingertips, such as nail deformity and fragility, pad atrophy, thin skin, disappearance of wrinkles, nail and fingertip ulcers or gangrene. 10-12% of patients may have limited finger (toe) skin sclerosis after long-term illness.

matters needing attention

In daily life, patients must maintain a good attitude, actively cooperate with the doctor, take medicine on time and in quantity, and also do the corresponding nursing measures, so as to control the disease as soon as possible, so as to get the best treatment effect.