AS Focus | Do you know what you need to pay attention to when you have ankylosing spondylitis?

Due to the lack of awareness of prevention, more and more young people are suffering from ankylosing spondylitis. In order to cure the disease as soon as possible and not affect daily life and work, everyone is looking for a good treatment method. So how to treat ankylosing spondylitis?

Treat as early as possible, the early cure rate is 90%

Clinical practice has found that: young age, short course of disease, easy to treat; old age, long course of disease, difficult to treat. When patients with early-stage ankylosing spondylitis and patients in the middle and late stages receive the same treatment methods, it is obvious that patients in the early stages are less difficult to cure and the cure time is shorter. This shows that ankylosing spondylitis is more likely to be cured with early treatment.

No matter what kind of disease it is, the earlier the treatment is, the better, and the same is true for the treatment of ankylosing spondylitis. Therefore, seeking early treatment is an important part of curing ankylosing spondylitis.

Persist in treatment and don’t stop when you see improvement

Since ankylosing spondylitis is a disease that is easy to diagnose but difficult to treat, its treatment time is relatively long. Generally, a course of treatment is three months, and patients must undergo efficacy evaluation after three months of treatment.

Many patients "stop when they see improvement". They treat when they feel pain and interrupt treatment when the pain stops. This is actually not good for their condition and makes it worse. This is also a factor that causes the disease to recur and be difficult to cure.

It is better not to treat than to treat it indiscriminately

When choosing treatment methods, you must be careful. Do not take hormones, immunosuppressants or so-called "pure Chinese medicine preparations" containing these drugs indiscriminately to avoid damaging your health and causing serious consequences. After the symptoms are alleviated, consolidation treatment should be continued for a period of time to avoid recurrence.