Symptoms of blood rheumatism

Rheumatism is a very common disease among the elderly, especially among elderly men. There are many different types of rheumatic diseases. If you want to treat them, you can only find out which type you have so that you can prescribe the right medicine. Among rheumatic diseases, there is a type of rheumatism called blood rheumatism, which is mainly caused by problems with the immune function of the human body's blood. So if you suffer from blood rheumatism, what symptoms will appear in the human body?

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1. Most rheumatic diseases have joint lesions and symptoms, which can be as high as 70-80%. About 50% only have pain, while severe cases have comprehensive inflammatory manifestations such as redness, swelling, heat, pain and impaired function; most of the time, multiple joints are affected. The size of the joints affected varies depending on the type of disease.

2. Heterogeneity, that is, the same disease has different subtypes. Due to different genetic backgrounds, causes and mechanisms, the types, symptoms, severity and treatment responses of clinical manifestations are also different.

3. Rheumatic diseases are mostly multi-system diseases. The pathologies of many diseases overlap and the symptoms are similar. MCTD is a typical example of this.

4. Various antibodies and immune complexes (CIC) appear in the serum and can be deposited in tissues (skin, synovium) or organs (kidney, liver) to cause disease.

5. Raynaud's phenomenon often occurs in this type of disease, such as SLE and MCTD.

Check steps:

First: Antistreptococcal hemoglobin "0" (ASO): The normal value is less than 1:500. A positive result indicates that the body is infected with hemolytic streptococci, which can lead to rheumatic fever.

Second: Rheumatoid factor (RF): RF is common in a variety of rheumatic diseases and acute and chronic inflammations. Therefore, you cannot assume that you have rheumatoid arthritis simply because RF is positive. However, if the RF titer is high, multiple tests are positive, and multiple methods are positive, then the possibility of rheumatoid arthritis is higher.

Third: anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide antibodies (CCP), anti-keratin antibodies (AKA), anti-perinuclear factor (APF), anti-RA-33 antibodies, and anti-Sa antibodies: they are common in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, especially in the diagnosis of early rheumatoid arthritis patients, and are of great significance in judging the prognosis of the disease.

Note: The above are the specific steps for rheumatic disease blood tests, but when you really have joint and muscle pain, many people will think that it is an accidental sprain in daily life, and it is often easy to ignore the pain. Therefore, once you are sick or have any pain, you must go to the hospital for examination in time and do not ignore the best time for treatment.