What are the treatments for arthritis

Arthritis should be a very common disease in our daily life. There are many types of arthritis, and the number of arthritis patients in our country has been increasing. Arthritis will have a great harm to daily life and work, and symptoms such as redness, heat, swelling, and pain will appear. Severe cases will also cause disability. Everyone should actively learn about the treatments for arthritis.

Arthritis can cause pain, which is also the most important manifestation of arthritis. Swelling is also very common. If it is serious, it will cause other problems in the body. So what are the treatments for arthritis? Let's take a look.

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1. Medication

Choose appropriate treatment drugs based on the type of arthritis, characteristics of symptoms, and concomitant diseases. The principle of treatment is early diagnosis and early, reasonable, combined medication. Commonly used anti-rheumatic drugs are as follows:

(1) Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs can inhibit the synthesis of prostaglandins and quickly produce anti-inflammatory and analgesic effects. They are effective in relieving pain, but they cannot change the course of the disease. Commonly used drugs in clinical practice include glucosamine hydrochloride granules, ibuprofen, penicillamine, diclofenac, aspirin, indomethacin, etc.

(2) Slow-acting antirheumatic drugs are mostly used for rheumatoid arthritis and seronegative spondyloarthropathies. It has a certain control effect on the disease but the effect is slow. Commonly used ones include gold mixture (intramuscular injection or oral administration), penicillamine, sulfasalazine, chloroquine, etc.

(3) Cytotoxic drugs produce immunosuppressive effects through different pathways. Commonly used ones include cyclophosphamide, methotrexate, and Jin Duchun. They are often second-line drugs for systemic lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis and vasculitis. Although they have more and more serious side effects, they play a big role in improving the prognosis of these diseases.

(4) Adrenal cortical hormones are anti-inflammatory and anti-allergic drugs that significantly improve the prognosis of connective tissue diseases such as systemic lupus erythematosus, but they cannot cure these diseases. Its numerous side effects increase with increasing dosage and prolonged treatment course, so when using it, its efficacy and side effects should be weighed and selected with caution.

(5) Antibiotics and other streptococcal infections can cause arthritis symptoms of rheumatic fever. Penicillin used in the acute phase is the most effective drug for controlling streptococcal infection. Patients with acute rheumatic fever should use long-acting antibiotics for a long time to prevent the occurrence of long-term rheumatic carditis. Prevention for adults should not be less than 5 years, and for children should be maintained until at least 18 years old. Tuberculous arthritis and fungal arthritis require active and effective treatment with anti-tuberculosis or antifungal drugs.

(6) Treatment of gouty arthritis includes drug treatment in the acute phase, including high-dose nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs or colchicine, and uric acid-lowering treatment in the remission phase. Uric acid-lowering drugs mainly include allopurinol, which inhibits uric acid production, and benzbromarone, which promotes uric acid excretion.

2. Surgical treatment

Surgical treatment mainly includes joint puncture, synovectomy, joint replacement, joint orthopedics, joint fusion, etc.

3. Bone marrow transplant

It does have significant therapeutic effects in treating rheumatoid arthritis. Autologous bone marrow transplantation, which restores the immune system to promote recovery, has achieved good results in treating childhood rheumatoid arthritis.

4. Immunization and biological therapy

This type of treatment targets the main link in the onset of arthritis and the progression of the disease, such as targeted molecule therapy for cytokines, plasma exchange, immune purification, immune reconstitution, mesenchymal stem cell transplantation, etc. It is mainly used for patients with severe arthritis that is ineffective with other treatments, rapidly progressing and refractory, mainly rheumatoid arthritis.

What are the treatments for arthritis that everyone should pay attention to? In normal times, we should understand some of the causes that can cause arthritis, especially to be able to avoid the existence of these causes. We should eat reasonably and maintain a good lifestyle to better prevent the occurrence of arthritis. If we suffer from arthritis, we must seek treatment in time.