Yesterday was World Arthritis Day. The reporter learned from some hospitals in the city that the incidence of arthritis is getting higher and higher, and people of all ages may suffer from arthritis in varying degrees.
According to Tan Zhiming, Dean and Chief Physician of the First Branch of the People's Hospital in the city center, arthritis is a chronic disease that can make people feel pain and activity, but it can lead to loss of joint function and severely affect life, work, and study. It is even life-threatening. Among hundreds of arthritis, osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis and gouty arthritis are common. These three kinds of arthritis are currently incurable, and patients should pay attention to it, communicate fully with the doctor, and follow the doctor's advice for active treatment to protect the joints and prevent loss of joint function.
Osteoarthritis should avoid joint weight-bearing activities
"Osteoarthritis is mainly caused by degenerative changes in bone, so it occurs in the elderly." Tan Zhiming said that often doing work, often wearing high heels, fingers often hit the keyboard, etc. are easy to cause osteoarthritis.
Tan Zhiming reminded that patients with osteoarthritis must avoid joint weight-bearing activities, such as climbing stairs, climbing mountains, etc., because these weight-bearing activities will increase the destruction of bone and joints. Some patients once suffered from osteoarthritis, eat painkillers to relieve pain, and if they do not feel pain, they think that it is better and still carry out weight-bearing activities, which will only lead to more and more severe osteoarthritis.
Children may also suffer from rheumatoid arthritis
Rheumatoid arthritis is caused by abnormal immune function, even some children will be affected, summer sleep on the cold floor, in a humid environment, often blowing fans, air conditioning, etc. are all rheumatoid arthritis The incentive.
"For this kind of arthritis, many people have misunderstandings in treatment. They believe that some rivers and lakes go to doctors, which delays the best treatment time." Tan Zhiming said that some patients go to the rivers and lakes to seek medical care and open up some Chinese medicine to eat. After two years or so, I was not able to visit the hospital again. As a result, my fingers were deformed and I could hardly recover. Because this type of arthritis is common in children, parents should pay high attention and seek medical treatment promptly.
Drink bone soup is easy to suffer from gouty arthritis
"Gouty arthritis is a metabolic disease, some of which are inherited, some of which are caused by other causes, such as renal failure." Tan Zhiming said that the onset age of this arthritis is getting younger and younger in some 10 years old. It can be found on children.
Tan Zhiming said that the arthritis can be said to be "eating out of the disease." Overeating and alcoholism can cause acute attack of gouty arthritis. "Some patients think that drinking bone soup can supplement calcium, but this argument has no scientific basis at present. Bone soup is too much to drink and it can cause metabolic diseases, causing gouty arthritis." In addition, high blood uric acid gout Patients with osteoarthritis should also properly drink plenty of water to prevent the onset of arthritis.