Symptoms of rheumatic fever

Rheumatism is a complex disease that usually affects older people. If you suffer from rheumatism, you must seek timely treatment because it can easily cause rheumatic bone disease, which is a difficult to cure disease. Rheumatic fever is a disease problem caused by bacterial infection in the body, which usually requires treatment with Chinese medicine or the use of instruments. Let's analyze the specific symptoms specifically. What are the symptoms of rheumatic fever?

1. Streptococcal infection and immune response theory

The cause of rheumatic fever has not yet been fully elucidated. It is currently recognized that rheumatic fever is an autoimmune disease caused by pharyngeal infection with group A and group B streptococci.

It is now generally accepted that rheumatic fever is caused by group A and group B streptococcal pharyngeal infection

2. Viral infection theory

In recent years, relevant scholars have paid more attention to the theory of viral infection, and believe that rheumatic fever may be related to Coxsackie B3 and B4 virus infection.

3. Genetic factors

Recently, it has been discovered that there are genetic markers in patients with rheumatic fever, and approximately 72% of patients with rheumatic fever test positive.

Genetic markers found in rheumatic fever patients

4. Immune function

Changes in immune function status may also be involved in the occurrence of rheumatic fever.

Diet therapy for rheumatic fever

1. Braised duck with qinjiao, mulberry branches

Recipe: 30 grams of Qinjiao, 50 grams of old mulberry branches, and 100 grams of old duck.

Preparation method: Wash the old duck, cut into pieces, and put into the pot together with the Chinese medicinal materials. Add appropriate amount of water. After it is cooked, season it, eat the duck meat and drink the soup.

Effects: Gentiana macrophylla has the effects of removing rheumatism, relieving pain and relieving fever; mulberry branch can remove rheumatism and activate the meridians;

Duck meat nourishes the spleen and stomach. This dietary therapy is suitable for systemic lupus erythematosus with rheumatic fever and joint swelling and pain accompanied by low fever.

2. Boil cat meat with coix and stephania

Recipe: 50g coix seed, 10g radix fangchi

, 200 grams of cat meat.

Preparation method: Kill the cat, remove the hair, remove the internal organs and cut into small pieces. Put them into a pot together with the medicinal materials and cook until soft. Eat the meat and drink the soup.

Effects: Job's tears taste sweet and mild, slightly cold in nature, enter the spleen, lung, and kidney meridians, have diuretic, dehumidifying, and heat-clearing effects, and have the effect of tonifying the spleen and stomach; wood-rooted coix has the effect of removing rheumatism and relieving pain;

Job's tears taste sweet and mild

Cat meat tastes sweet and sour, is warm in nature, and has the effects of dispelling wind and nourishing blood. This dietary therapy is suitable for systemic lupus erythematosus with rheumatic fever and joint swelling and pain accompanied by low fever.

3. Stewed lean meat with Gentiana macrophylla and Salvia miltiorrhiza

Recipe: 30 grams of Qinjiao, 30 grams of Salvia miltiorrhiza, and 50 grams of lean meat.

Preparation method: Wash the lean meat, cut into pieces, put into the pot together with the medicinal materials, add appropriate amount of water, and simmer until it is soft.

Wash the lean meat, cut it into pieces and put it into the pot with the herbs.

Efficacy: Gentiana macrophylla has the effects of removing rheumatism, relieving pain and relieving fever;

Salvia miltiorrhiza is bitter and slightly cold in nature, and enters the heart and liver meridians. It has the effects of promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis, promoting diuresis, reducing swelling, and calming the nerves. Lean pork is sweet and salty in nature, and is flat. It enters the spleen and kidney meridians, nourishes yin and moistens dryness, tonifies the kidney and benefits blood, and treats heat disease that damages body fluid.

This dietary therapy has the effects of removing rheumatism, clearing heat and relieving pain, and is effective for systemic lupus erythematosus of the rheumatic heat type.

Dietary taboos for rheumatic fever

The dietary principles should be to clear away heat, eliminate dampness and promote blood circulation. Commonly used foods have a cooling nature, remove dampness and promote blood circulation. Such as lotus root, winter melon, rapeseed, spinach, eggplant, loofah, carrot, coix seed, mung bean, red bean, black-bone chicken, rabbit meat, frog, duck meat, clam meat, kelp, grass carp, loach, abalone, turtle, etc.

Avoid eating warm and dry foods that damage yin. Such as ginger, garlic, chili, pepper, star anise, cinnamon, onion, lychee, dog meat, mutton, pork liver, pork stomach, etc.