How to treat damp-heat type rheumatoid arthritis

How to treat damp-heat type rheumatoid arthritis?

Rheumatoid arthritis is a systemic connective tissue disease, a progressive polyarthritis that involves not only joints but also extra-articular tissues. This disease is a common disease that usually involves both sides of the knee joint at the same time and can be combined with other joints. The affected joints are the hands, knees, wrists, ankles, elbows, feet, hips, etc., usually symmetrically.

Damp-heat rheumatoid arthritis can cause great inconvenience to the patient's life, so it should be treated in time. The treatment methods include:

1. General treatment:

1. Bed rest: effective for early cases, acute exacerbations or complications.

2 Support braking: relieve pain, muscle spasm and prevent deformity in the acute phase; but intermittent braking should move the joints appropriately.

2. Drug treatment:

1. Non-hormonal anti-inflammatory drug treatment.

2Corticosteroids: Systemic application of corticosteroids is limited to difficult-to-treat cases due to drug resistance and complications after high-dose use.

3. Immunosuppressive drug treatment.

3. Surgical treatment: In the early stage, feasible preventive surgery, such as knee synovectomy, can remove lesions and pain. In the late stage, surgery to correct deformity or improve joint function, osteotomy, joint fusion or artificial knee replacement can be performed.

Rheumatoid arthritis of damp-heat type is a chronic disease that can cause great pain to patients, so prevention measures should be taken:

1. Choose easily digestible foods in your diet, the cooking methods should be light and refreshing, and eat less spicy, greasy, and frozen foods.

2. Eat more appetizers such as red dates and coix seeds, especially coix seeds, which have the effect of removing dampness and wind. Cooking coix seed porridge or cooking it with mung beans is a good choice.

3. Try to reduce fat absorption. The main sources of calories are sugar and protein. If your weight exceeds the standard, lose weight gradually.

4 If your body is hot, you should eat more foods such as mung beans and watermelon; if it is cold, you should eat lamb or beef, but the amount absorbed should not be too much.