How patients of RA relieve pain without medicine

How patients of RA relieve pain without medicine

How patients of rheumatoid arthritis relieve pain without medicine? Joints pain is one the most common suffering for patients of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Excepts medicines, is there any method that can relieve pain naturally? 

Now i am introducing patients of RA some methods to relieve pain without medicines. 

1, hot compress. Patients can compress the painful joints with hot towel, hot-water bags, or you can have a warm bath, which are helpful to keep the warmth of the joints so as to relieve joint pain and stiffness. 

RA patients relieve pain naturally

2, for patients in acute stage, cold compress is more helpful to relieve pain. Besides, it can low the focal fever of joints. 

3, in daily life, patients can put a pair of soft shoe-pad in shoes or wear a pair of platform shoes or shoes with cushion function, which can reduce or reallocate the pressure on joints. 

When your joint is pain, you can try about the above methods. However, if the illness condition is severe, patients had better go to a doctor or hospital for systematic treatment. 

Is Losing Weight Important for Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA)

Is losing weight important for rheumatoid arthritis (RA)? Is controlling weight or losing weight helpful for rheumatoid arthritis? 

Is losing weight important for rheumatoid arthritis (RA)

When the weight is too high, it will form great burden for joints, especially for weight bearing joints, such as knee joints, hip joints. This condition will more likely to aggravate rheumatoid arthritis. 

For patients of high weight, they had better control weight lose weight by proper exercise, regular diets and so on. If the weight can be controlled well, that will benefit the illness condition. 

For daily exercise and diets, there are many points needs patient’s attention. More details,you can email to treatmentchina@gmail.com. 

Can I Choose Traditional Chinese Medicine to Treat Lupus

Traditional Chinese Medicine to Treat Lupus

There are many options for the treatment of lupus, but which one is the best or should patient’s take a combination treatment. And a lot of patients want to know whether they can choose traditional Chinese medicine to treat lupus and how about the effects. 

First, lupus, especially systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), will invade multiple organs of patients and its symptoms are complex and ever-changing. The traditional Chinese medicine treatment proceeds from the entirety and primary cause, achieving curative effects through regulating of internal environment. 

Second, according to every patients’symptoms,physique, environment and mental state, traditional Chinese medicine will give different treatment schedule, which avoid the single treatment model of hormone despite of symptoms and causes. So the treatment effects are improved greatly. 

Third, during the treatment of western medicine, it will generate unavoidable side-effects. The combination application of western medicine and traditional Chinese medicine can greatly reduce the side-effects of western medicine.

Forth, lupus is a type of chronic disease and Chinese medicine has little side-effects, so patients can take it for long term, which can consolidate treatment effects and reduce the recurrence opportunity.  

Diagnosis standards of gout and self-checked chart

Diagnosis standards of gout and self-checked chart 

How to find gout early? The attack of gout is caused by high level of serum uric acid in the body, so the easiest way to find gout early is to take a test of serum uric acid. Finding hyperuricemia in time plays an important role for patients to prevent, diagnose and take treatment for gout. 

Now introduce you the diagnosis standards of gout or self-checked chart. 

1, there are characteistic urate crystal in synovial fluid. 

2, take chemical approch or polarizing microscope to find whether there is urate crystal in tophus. 

3, suffering from six items of the following:

① more than once attack of acute arthritis;

② inflammatory reaction peaks in one day;

③ acute monarthritis attacks;

④ the skin on involved joints are dark red;

⑤ pain and swelling in the first plantar toe joint;

⑥ unilateral arthritis attacked and involved the first plantar toe joint;

⑦ unilateral arthritis attacked and involved tarsal joint;

⑧ there are suspicious tophus;

⑨ hyperuricemia ;

⑩ X-ray tests show asymmetric intra-articular swelling;

⑪ X-ray tests show cyst under cortex of bone without erosion;

⑫ negative in joint fluid organism cultivation during attack period of arthritis.

If you are conform with any one of 1,2,3 adding the any one of the rest, that can be diagnosed as gout. 

Levels and Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis

 As the developing the illness condition, patients’ joints begin to deform or lose the mobility. Up to now, there is no certain single standard for the assessment of patients’functional status, while the following classify are adopted widely in clinical. 

 LevelⅠ: patients can act normally without any limitation;

 LevelⅡ: although there are medium limitation, patients are still able to adapt;

 Level Ⅲ: severe limitation, and patients can not finish most daily normal work or activity. 

 Level Ⅳ: lose mobility and patients have to lie in bed or rely on wheelchair for activity. 

 The exact pathogenesis and is not very clear up to now and there is no specific medicines, but early and formal treatment can get most patients’ condition be relieved and maintain the normal work and life. Otherwise, patients will lost the best treatment opportunity and cause in irreversible pathologic change and joint function loss. Therefore,  standardized treatment of RA is very important. 

 The standardized treatment including early treatment, combination medication and individualized principle of treatment. 

 1, early treatment.

 Early positive treatment belongs to the change of treatment concept. Synovitis of RA progresses very soon in the first 1-2 years, and 50% of damage of cartilage or bone. If patients can get early diagnosis and early treatment and grasp the best time of treatment, it can greatly improve the prognosis and life quality. 

 2, combination medication. 

 If patients adopt the traditional pyramid treatment schedule, patients are more likely to miss the best treatment time. (Pyramid treatment schedule means that patients first adopt NSAIDs for a period of time, if the effects are not ideal, then add DMARDs for treatment. If the effects are still not good, cytotoxic drugs are needed). In the traditional treatment schedule, it usually takes 1-2 years time, patients lost the best treatment opportunity if the effects are not very good. Therefore, it is necessary to take the combination medication of NSAIDs, DMARDs and cytotoxic drugs according to personal condition to control disease progression in the first time. 

 3, individualized principle of treatment.

As is well-known, RA is a type of heterogeneity disease. Clinical manifestation and reaction to the treatment and prognosis vary much from patient to patient. Accordingly, the treatment or medication should be specialized. For the detail specialized treatment and medication options, you can refer to this.  

I am suffering from Rheumatoid Arthritis, will i be disabled

 

Rheumatoid Arthritis Disability

It is well know that Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) can cause disability. So many patients asked whether they will be disabled. It is true for part of patients suffer from RA severely, especially patients who can not insist on formal treatment. Long course of RA will lead to the serious joint deformity, decrease of physical function, and at last disability.
　　However, for most patients, if they can grasp the early stage of the disease progression and adopt formal treatment and regular follow-up treatment, the serious joint deformity or disability can be completely avoided or greatly reduced, and patients can maintain relatively better life quality and work ability.
　　Even if some patients have already had joint deformity, some orthodontic treatment or corrective surgery can be adopted according to different individual condition to prevent from disability. Therefore, whether all Rheumatoid Arthritis will lead to disability, it depends on the severity degree and whether patients have adopted formal and regular treatment.
　　To prevent disability, there are several points RA patients need to pay attention to.
　　1, early diagnosis and early treatment. Years’clinical practice has proved that early diagnosis and extensive early treatment play pretty important role in controlling disease progression and improving prognosis. In order to get early diagnosis, patients need to have some basic learning of the symptoms of RA and go to formal clinics or hospital for professional diagnosis.
　　2, scientific daily diet and lifestyle. There is an old saying in china that 30 percent of one disease determined by treatment and the left 70 percent determined by recuperating, especially for the chronic disease like RA. For the detail guide of diets and lifestyle, you can write me an email: treatmentchina@gmail.com. Glad to communicate with you.
　　3, proper exercise and functional training. Suffering from Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) does not mean patients can not move or work any more. On the contrary, proper exercise r work can help to maintain the normal joint form and function. Except for patients who have severe pain and can not move in acute stage, all of them should insist on regular and proper exercise or training according to their tolerance. It is alright just as the exercise intensity won’t aggravate the second day’s symptom.

It says hormone is “opium”. Will i be addicted to hormone?

hormone for Rheumatoid Arthritis (AS)

For the early treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis （AS), application of hormone is one the the most common choose . As we all know, however, hormone has great side-effects for patients, especially for long-term application. Therefore, many patients worry about it and ask: it says hormone is “opium”, will i be addicted to hormone?

First, this kind of opinion is incomplete. With the development of medical level, the treatment methods have been greatly improved and diversified. Up to now, although hormone is still a main medication of rheumatoid arthritis, it is a double-edged sword. Proper and scientific application can achieve great treatment effects, while improper application can cause terrible side-effects. 

For some patients with sever joint symptoms, whose symptoms still can not be relieved by taking non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and complicated with obvious general symptoms and viscera lesions, it is necessary for them to take systematic hormone treatment. 

Second, nowadays, the dosage of hormone is relatively low comparing with that of before. Patients don’t need to worry too much, while the premise is that the application should be under doctor’s direction. 

Third, any kinds of hormone medicine have side-effects viscera and endocrine system, especially for long-term application, including moon face, buffalo back, acne, infection, avascular necrosis and so on. In order to reduce the side-effects, patients can combine Chinese medicine treatment with the western medicine, which helps remove the untoward effects of hormone. At the same time, Chinese medicine can regulate the whole body’s circulation system and immune system, which aiming at treating disease from the foundation cause and improving the life quality during the long treatment course. 

My email address is treatmentchina@gmail.com. welcome to send emails to me and glad to communicate with you. 

I know the medicine for Rheumatoid Arthritis, can i buy the medicine myself from pharmacy?

Medicine for Rheumatoid Arthritis

Many patients don’t want to go to a doctor or they are afraid of going to hospital. In daily life, some patients may have few learning about some medicines for Rheumatoid Arthritis, such as hormone medicine, NSAIDs and DMARDs, so they want to buy some medicines themselves to relieve pain. 

However, this method is not scientific. The purpose of going to hospital is not only to get medicine.in hospital, doctors will observe patient’s condition change, whether there is any untoward effects of taking medicine. Sometimes, it is necessary to take some examination. And physicians and doctors will decide the increase or reduce of medicine dose, as well as the change of medicine. 

Therefore, patients had better go to a doctor or hospital in the first time, so that they can get most safe and effective medication, and avoid missing the best treatment period. We suggest patients had better not take medicines arbitrarily. 

if you have any question i can help or if you have good treatment suggestion for the treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), you may send an email to treatmentchina@gmail.com. Glad to hear from you. 

Communication changes the world and i hope my information can help the patients suffering from auto-immune disease. with the deeper research, we found many diseases,such as kidney disease, rheumatoid disease, cancer and so on, are related to the autoimmune system. at the same time, treatment for auto-immune disease become one important research program all over the world. as a member of medicine,i am creating this blog to share some information i have learnt. hope the related information can help the patients in suffer. at the same time, i hope to have the chance to communicate with patients and reserchers so that we can help more people in need.