Don’t underestimate joint swelling and pain, be careful this disease finds you

Red Net Moment, February 24th (Correspondent Lu Haowenna) “No need for crutches, no more suffering when walking!” Recently, she lives in Yuetang District, Xiangtan City When Daddy Cai came to the Hunan Provincial Occupational Disease Prevention and Control Institute for a re-examination, he handed a pennant to Liu Shuiping, the chief physician of the Pain Department, to express his gratitude to him and all the medical staff of the Pain Department.

Daddy Cai, 72 years old this year, has always been in good health. One year ago, he suddenly suffered from swelling and pain in his right ankle. After a period of time, it was found that the redness and swelling did not subside, but became more and more serious. He went to the local hospital for treatment. After taking medicine and acupuncture for a period of time, the swelling and pain were still obvious. He even needed the support of crutches to stand and walk.

“This foot pain makes me suffer from sitting, standing, and lying down!” . Chief physician Liu Shuijing helped him to do a detailed examination, comprehensive clinical manifestations and auxiliary examination results, after a comprehensive understanding of the condition, it was considered that it was rheumatoid arthritis and ankle joint infection, and Dad Cai was admitted to the hospital. The medical team immediately formulated a personalized treatment plan for Dad Cai. After standardized anti-inflammatory, dehydration and swelling, ozone injection in the ankle joint, and physical therapy, his swelling and pain have basically subsided, and he can walk without crutches.

Liu Shuijing introduced that rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease secondary to group A streptococcal infection. The progression of the disease causes migratory polyarthritis, which can recur repeatedly, which is critical to the life and work of patients. cause trouble. Clinical manifestations can be divided into three categories: systemic symptoms: including irregular fever, muscle aches, fatigue, loss of appetite, irritability, etc. Joint symptoms: Pain is the primary symptom; large joints are most commonly affected, such as knee joints and ankle joints, accompanied by inflammatory symptoms such as redness, swelling, heat, and pain, and joint deformities are generally not left behind. Extra-articular symptoms: In addition to joints, many other organ systems can also be involved and have corresponding symptoms, such as myocarditis and endocarditis caused by cardiac involvement.

“Rheumatoid arthritis should not be underestimated, and early diagnosis is very important!” Liu Shuijing said that if the disease is not treated in a timely and reasonable manner in the early stage, the disease is easy to repeat, and may lead to polyarthritis, Cardiac insufficiency, chorea, etc., are very harmful to patients. Once the public has the above symptoms, they must go to a regular hospital for examination in time, in order to benefit from early diagnosis, early treatment, and standardized treatment, so as to achieve effective prevention and control of the disease.