What to do with rheumatic fever

Rheumatic fever is a common symptom in rheumatic patients. This problem cannot be ignored because rheumatic diseases themselves have a greater impact on us and can easily lead to redness, swelling, pain, and functional disorders in the joints. Therefore, once these symptoms are found, we should pay attention to active treatment to reduce the harm caused as much as possible.

1. When rheumatism comes, people tend to ignore the harm of some of its basic causes. Rheumatic patients need to work more on the cause. The cause of rheumatism is more important than treatment. Only by understanding the cause can it be treated as soon as possible.

2. Experts say that rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic, recurrent, long-term disease that affects the synovial joints and manifests as redness, swelling, heat, pain and dysfunction. Among them, the distal interphalangeal joints are most easily affected, followed by the shoulders, ankles, elbows and other joints. Morning stiffness is very common.

3. Early patients may present with swelling on the back of the wrist, fusiform swelling of the PIP, tenderness, numbness of the fingers, inability to make a fist, or hold heavy objects. Late patients may develop typical hand signs, including lateral subluxation of the hand muscles (MCP) to form an "ulnar deviation deformity", hyperextension of the PIP, and hyperflexion of the DIP to form a "swan neck deformity". Carpal tunnel syndrome may occur when wrist flexor tenosynovitis compresses the median nerve.

4. When the lesion affects the shoulder and knee joints, the patient usually loses the ability to take care of himself. The disease mainly affects the small joints of the hands and feet, and other organs or tissues such as the heart and lungs may also be damaged. The main pathological changes are synovitis of the joints, tissue infiltration, synovial pannus formation, erosion of cartilage and bone tissue, and repeated synovitis, leading to destruction of the joint structure, deformity and loss of function, and ultimately loss of labor force.