Don't want to let rheumatoid "New Year", daily protection is essential.

Rheumatoid arthritis is a serious systemic disease, which is common in finger joints, wrist joints and metacarpophalangeal joints. Joint pain or stiffness will occur in the early stage, and joint deformity, bone rigidity and functional loss will occur in the late stage, which will seriously affect the quality of life.

In addition to active treatment, patients should pay more attention to diet and reasonable control in their daily lives, especially during the Spring Festival holiday, so as to prevent the symptoms from getting worse.

Avoid allergic food

Milk, peanuts, chocolate and other foods containing tyrosine, phenylalanine and tryptophan may cause food allergies in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, which may lead to the aggravation, recurrence or deterioration of arthritis.

Therefore, patients with rheumatoid arthritis should avoid eating foods that have obviously induced or aggravated the disease in the past, especially when there is a rash or skin allergy, and should temporarily avoid irritating foods such as seafood and spicy food.

Eat less foods with high cholesterol.

Eating high cholesterol foods such as fat and animal fat can promote the body to produce more ketone bodies, acids and arachidonic acid.

These metabolites in the human body will aggravate joint pain and swelling, in addition, they will also lead to decalcification of bones and osteoporosis, thus aggravating the patient's condition.

Stay away from alcohol, tobacco and sugar tea

Alcohol, cigarettes, coffee and carbonated drinks are easy to aggravate inflammation and aggravate the condition of rheumatoid patients.

However, allergic to sweets will aggravate synovitis, lead to joint swelling and pain, and aggravate the condition.

Eat more fruits and vegetables.

Fruits and vegetables are rich in vitamins and minerals and are antioxidants, which can reduce the damage of free radicals by the immune system, thus alleviating the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis.

Therefore, patients with rheumatoid arthritis can eat more fruits and vegetables.

Eat less leftovers.

It is easy to eat leftovers on holidays, but rheumatoid patients have some gastrointestinal problems more or less.

If food is eaten without strict heating, or directly taken out of the refrigerator, it is particularly dangerous, which may easily lead to a series of symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea and fever.

Therefore, we should pay special attention to food hygiene, leafy vegetables and eggs should not stay overnight, and leftovers and packaged food must be fully heated before eating.

In addition to diet

We should also pay attention to these.

Cold and warm

During the Spring Festival in previous years, the temperature will rise, but this year's Spring Festival "cold air+rain", the temperature dropped significantly, so rheumatoid patients should keep their joints warm and apply appropriate hot compress to relieve joint pain and stiffness.

If you want to go out for a visit, you should pay attention to the temperature difference between indoor and outdoor, because sudden contact with cold air can easily lead to an increase in blood pressure and induce cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases such as myocardial infarction and angina pectoris.

Therefore, it is best to control the room temperature at around 18, and wear a mask, hat and scarf before going out.

Pay attention to safety when going out

Rain and snow weather, whether visiting relatives and friends or traveling, are easy to fall, while rheumatoid patients are more likely to cause fractures and limb pain due to osteoporosis.

Therefore, pay attention to safety when going out, remember to prevent slipping and falling, try to wear thick clothes and shoes with deep anti-slip ability when going out, and finally bring knee pads, elbow pads and other protective devices, which can not only prevent slip, but also keep joints warm.

It should be noted that for patients with osteoporosis, some fractures are recessive, and moving furniture and heavy objects can easily lead to spinal fractures and low back pain, which needs attention.

If there are traumatic symptoms such as limb pain, deformity and low back pain, you should seek medical advice promptly.

Moderate entertainment

Playing mobile phones, playing mahjong, grabbing red envelopes, playing games and other entertainment projects during the New Year are essential.

However, excessive indulgence in entertainment will affect the regularity of three meals, and the same posture for a long time will increase the joint burden, and excessive fatigue will easily lead to the recurrence of the disease.

Therefore, everyone must have moderate entertainment during the New Year, and the same posture should not exceed 2 hours. Drink water and exercise.

Keep doing exercises.

During the Spring Festival, whether it is epidemic prevention or maintaining normal joint activities, proper exercise is beneficial.

At home, patients can do some gymnastics and aerobic exercise, exercise joints more, keep joint flexibility, increase muscle strength and prevent joint stiffness.

During the Spring Festival, whether it is family reunion, dinner or entertainment, we should put health first, pay attention to rest more and not be too tired.