What you should know for SLE treatment

What you should know for SLE treatment

After being diagnosed with SLE, you should not only rely on the doctors for treatment. Just as Dr.Hou said, the treatment effects depend on the medicine and treatment, but it more depends on yourselves.
　　Yes, patients are the subjects of the treatment, the understanding, cooperation and confidence of patients to great extent decide the treatment effects. In order to achieve better effects, there are something patients should know for SLE treatment.
　　1. Correct and scientific learning about this disease. Up to now, just like diabetes and other types of chronic disease, there is no certain complete cure for SLE, but it is possible for the patients to control illness condition, improve life quality with proper treatment. So after being diagnosed, patients should not be intimidated by it and lose their confidence.
　　2. No blindly trying everything without any scientific basis. The anxiety of patients can be understood. However, patients must not blindly believe the so called cure. No matter where you are, patients need to go to professional rheumatologists for regular treatment and follow-up.
　　3. Self-protection and daily care. In daily life, patients of SLE should take proper self-protection measures, such as avoiding direct sunshine by long sleeves, umbrella, avoiding cold stimulation avoiding muddy air.
　　4. Reasonable application of hormone and DMARDs. As we all know, SLE is a refractory disease, so most patients have to accept the hormone and DMARDs treatment. At the same time, these medicines have certain side-effects. For this condition, patients should have a reasonable understanding. If the side-effects can be controlled in certain degree, the treatment still can be applied.

　　5. Combined treatment of TCM and western medicine for SLE is better then single medicine. Don’t be superstitious to any one medicine, neither traditional Chinese medicine nor western medicine. Some medicines have good effects for some patients, but there is no medicine which is suitable for all patients. So patients need to find the most suitable treatment according to the illness condition. According to decades of clinical observation, only the combined treatment of TCM and western medicine for SLE can achieve better effects on controlling illness progress and improving life quality, which is the main treatment propose.