How to treat arthritis

There are many common diseases in life. When it comes to treating diseases, the choice of methods is very critical. Different treatment methods have different helping effects on improving the disease. Therefore, when treating diseases, it is important to choose a good method, which is conducive to the stability of the disease. So how to treat arthritis? Arthritis is a disease that causes great harm to human health.

After arthritis occurs, it must be treated in time, otherwise it will cause great damage to the patient's body in all aspects. Moreover, when treating such a disease, the method of choice cannot be carried out arbitrarily. So how to treat arthritis?

How to treat arthritis:

1. Medication

Choose appropriate treatment drugs based on the type of arthritis, characteristics of symptoms, and concomitant diseases. The principle of treatment is early diagnosis and early, reasonable, combined medication. Commonly used anti-rheumatic drugs are as follows:

(1) Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs can inhibit the synthesis of prostaglandins and quickly produce anti-inflammatory and analgesic effects. They are effective in relieving pain, but they cannot change the course of the disease. Commonly used drugs in clinical practice include glucosamine hydrochloride granules, ibuprofen, penicillamine, diclofenac, aspirin, indomethacin, etc.

(2) Slow-acting antirheumatic drugs are mostly used for rheumatoid arthritis and seronegative spondyloarthropathies. It has a certain control effect on the disease but the effect is slow. Commonly used ones include gold mixture (intramuscular injection or oral administration), penicillamine, sulfasalazine, chloroquine, etc.

(3) Cytotoxic drugs produce immunosuppressive effects through different pathways. Commonly used ones include cyclophosphamide, methotrexate, and Jin Duchun. They are often second-line drugs for systemic lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis and vasculitis. Although they have more and more serious side effects, they play a big role in improving the prognosis of these diseases.

(4) Adrenal cortical hormones are anti-inflammatory and anti-allergic drugs that significantly improve the prognosis of connective tissue diseases such as systemic lupus erythematosus, but they cannot cure these diseases. Its numerous side effects increase with increasing dosage and prolonged treatment course, so when using it, its efficacy and side effects should be weighed and selected with caution.

(5) Antibiotics and other streptococcal infections can cause arthritis symptoms of rheumatic fever. Penicillin used in the acute phase is the most effective drug for controlling streptococcal infection. Patients with acute rheumatic fever should use long-acting antibiotics for a long time to prevent the occurrence of long-term rheumatic carditis. Prevention for adults should not be less than 5 years, and for children should be maintained until at least 18 years old. Tuberculous arthritis and fungal arthritis require active and effective treatment with anti-tuberculosis or antifungal drugs.

(6) Treatment of gouty arthritis includes drug treatment in the acute phase, including high-dose nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs or colchicine, and uric acid-lowering treatment in the remission phase. Uric acid-lowering drugs mainly include allopurinol, which inhibits uric acid production, and benzbromarone, which promotes uric acid excretion.

2. Surgical treatment

Surgical treatment mainly includes joint puncture, synovectomy, joint replacement, joint orthopedics, and joint fusion.

3. Bone marrow transplant

It does have significant therapeutic effects in treating rheumatoid arthritis. Autologous bone marrow transplantation, which restores the immune system to promote recovery, has achieved good results in treating childhood rheumatoid arthritis.

Through the above introduction, we have a good understanding of how to treat arthritis. Following the above methods, we can treat this type of disease very well. However, it should be noted that when treating such diseases, it must be done for a long time so that the disease can be stabilized and the disease will not continue to develop.