In this case, it is best to do a detailed physical examination at this time to understand the swelling and pain of fingers and what factors are related to them. Therefore, we can take timely symptomatic medication and take reasonable measures to control the development of local lesions. So, what factors are commonly associated with finger joint swelling?
Finger joint swelling, and what factors?
There are many reasons for finger joint swelling. It is necessary to distinguish bacterial inflammation from aseptic inflammation locally. Bacterial inflammation is joint bacterial infection; Aseptic inflammation is more common, such as gout, rheumatoid and other medical system diseases.
1, rheumatoid arthritis
Finger joint swelling is mostly caused by finger arthritis, which is a kind of rheumatism and often appears in the elderly and people who use their hands more. The main manifestations of this disease are that the fingers are afraid of cold and the knuckles are swollen and painful. In terms of treatment, aspirin tablets or ibuprofen sustained-release capsules can be taken orally. There is also the need to keep warm and avoid excessive hand activity.
2, gout
In real life, some people find that finger joints are obviously swollen. After this happens, it depends on whether it is related to gout. Generally speaking, after suffering from gout, the joints have obvious pain and swelling. In view of the abnormal performance of joint parts, uric acid level should be checked in time.
Because gout is related to high uric acid concentration, if uric acid concentration is too high, it will develop into gout at this time. Under the influence of gout, people's joints are obviously swollen, which will affect the normal joint activities of the human body.
3. Osteoarthritis
When you find that your knuckles are swollen, you need to see if it is related to osteoarthritis. Generally speaking, the occurrence of osteoarthritis is related to bone degeneration. With the increase of age, people's finger joints wear out, which may lead to degeneration. At this time, if a person's fingers are inflamed, it will develop into osteoarthritis.
In addition, patients can find finger swelling and pain, and need to treat finger abnormalities in time. In this way, the development of osteoarthritis is controlled, thus avoiding the aggravation of local inflammation and the harm to human body.
4. Finger trauma
Generally speaking, people find finger swelling and pain, which may be caused by finger injury. For example, some people often play basketball, in the process of playing basketball, there will be some conflicts.
If fingers often collide, under the influence of trauma, it is easy to cause swelling and pain of human joints. If it is caused by trauma, reasonable measures should be taken to improve it, but it can be controlled after general medication.
From the above, we can know that when we find finger joint swelling and pain, we need to find out the reason at this time to see if it is related to the above four factors. If it is caused by the above four factors, reasonable improvement measures should be taken in time to prevent the joint swelling and pain from continuing.