What should you pay attention to when you have chondritis?

What is chondritis? Seeing this sentence, many people must have started to wonder and become curious. What exactly is cartilage? How does inflammation occur? What are the consequences of chondritis? In response to everyone’s curiosity and questions, I will briefly introduce to you what you should pay attention to when it comes to chondritis. I hope it will be of some help to you in this regard.

Disease prevention

(1) Open windows frequently to keep indoor air fresh, participate in more physical activities, and enhance your own resistance. When the weather turns cooler, avoid catching a cold.

(2) Keep warm and avoid catching cold. Don't take off your clothes immediately when you sweat to avoid catching a cold.

(3) Wear soft, dry clothes and avoid moisture.

(4) Pay attention to the balance between work and rest, and avoid overwork.

(5) When working, pay attention to raising awareness of protection, lift heavy objects with the correct posture, do not use excessive force, and beware of damage to the sternocostal cartilage and ligaments

Eat more vegetables and fruits. Eat more foods that enhance immunity: soft-shelled turtle, tortoise, sea turtle, sandworm, herring, shark, water snake, shrimp, white snake, crucian carp, mulberry, fig, lychee, walnut, Trichosanthes, purslane, fermented black beans, olives, almonds, and loofah. Eat more high-quality protein foods, such as milk, eggs, fish, poultry, etc. Avoid spicy, cold, greasy and indigestible foods. Such as chili peppers, cigarettes, strong alcohol, raw food, cold dishes and foods containing large amounts of animal fat.

It usually lasts for 2 to 3 months and may improve or disappear on its own. However, some patients have repeated attacks, which are sometimes better and sometimes worse, sometimes mild and sometimes severe, and may last for months or even years.

Western medicine treatment: relies on various hormone drugs to achieve analgesic effects, but can only temporarily relieve pain symptoms, which is of little significance for disease treatment, and it is even more impossible to achieve a cure for costochondritis. Moreover, long-term use of hormone drugs will produce many side effects on the human body, further affecting the body's immunity and making the disease more difficult to cure.

Surgical treatment of Western medicine: Surgical treatment is a helpless measure when Western medicine drug treatment is ineffective, but costochondritis cannot be "solved". On the one hand, surgical resection is traumatic and high-risk, and it causes great damage to the patient's body's vital energy; on the other hand, various complications are very likely to occur after the operation, such as various pneumonias, soft tissue necrosis, abscesses, etc., which increase the difficulty of treatment and the patient's own pain.

External application of traditional Chinese medicine: Costal cartilage. Fangshi_Yi. Patch. A series of Chinese medicinal ingredients with the effects of promoting blood circulation and qi, relieving stagnation and removing blood stasis are selected. It targets the wind, cold, dampness, qi and blood stasis that are the causes of the disease, and can achieve the effects of dispelling wind and dampness, and harmonizing qi and blood. The external treatment method is direct application, and the medicinal properties have strong penetration, thus quickly curing the stubborn disease of costochondritis.

What should I pay attention to when I have chondritis? After reading the above analysis and introduction, I wonder if you can master the knowledge well. Chondritis can easily occur in life if you are not careful, so I hope everyone will pay more attention and be careful. If you or someone around you suffers from chondritis, remember to go to the hospital first and seek help and treatment from a doctor.