What's the difference between rheumatism and rheumatoid diseases?
1, for different reasons.
Rheumatism refers to rheumatoid arthritis, and most of them are diseases that people who work in cold storage for a long time are prone to. It will not hurt the heart, nor will it destroy the patient's bone tissue, but only attack the patient's joints. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, rheumatism belongs to damp-cold arthralgia.
Rheumatoid arthritis only has symptoms similar to those of rheumatoid arthritis, and it also invades the joints of patients, limiting their activities, swelling and even deformation. Rheumatoid can also invade the patient's heart. This is an autoimmune disease.
2. The symptoms are different and the causes are different.
The joints of rheumatoid arthritis will not swell in the early stage and will not deform in the later stage. In the early stage of rheumatoid arthritis, the finger joints and toe joints are symmetrically swollen, and the joints will be deformed in the later stage.
Rheumatoid arthritis is characterized by soreness, swelling and pain of joints and muscles. The cause of the disease may be related to hemolytic streptococcus A infection, and factors such as cold and humidity are the inducement of rheumatoid arthritis. It mostly occurs in knee joint, ankle joint, shoulder joint, elbow joint and wrist joint.
Rheumatoid arthritis is a systemic autoimmune disease with unknown etiology. It often occurs in hand joints, wrist joints, feet and other small joints, and it is easy to be disabled after repeated attacks. Often accompanied by fever, fatigue, pericarditis, subcutaneous effusion, pleurisy, arteritis, peripheral neuropathy and other complications.
The disability rate of rheumatoid arthritis ranks second, second only to cerebrovascular diseases. Among joint diseases, rheumatoid arthritis is the first cause of disability in female patients. Rheumatoid arthritis mostly occurs in women, and the ratio of male to female is 1: 3. Most of them occur in women aged 20-40. The early symptoms are joint pain, swelling, stiffness, inconvenient movement, light and heavy, repeated attacks, persistent unhealed, and often joint stiffness or deformity.
The etiology of rheumatoid arthritis is still unclear, which is related to the imbalance of estrogen and progesterone levels in women.
Prevention of rheumatoid arthritis
The prevention of rheumatoid arthritis is mainly in daily life, pay attention to windproof, cold-proof and moisture-proof, especially friends living in the northern region where the weather is relatively cold, and must pay attention to keeping warm according to the drastic changes in climate. Keep the living environment dry and the temperature appropriate. At ordinary times, we should also strengthen physical exercise and improve immunity.
Prevention of rheumatoid arthritis
The etiology of rheumatoid arthritis has no definite answer, but it has a certain relationship with secretion, metabolism, nutrition and occupation. Therefore, prevention can only start from two aspects: diet and exercise.
Light diet: Choose digestible food in daily life, mainly light diet, and eat less spicy and greasy food.
Moderate exercise: Exercise can improve the body's immunity and make people relaxed and happy. Aerobic exercise more than three times a day or more than 40 minutes a week is still very good for health.