Symptoms of scleroderma
Please be careful when we find ourselves with the following symptoms, because this is probably caused by scleroderma.
The early manifestations of scleroderma are usually not characteristic. Although it is common among young and middle-aged women, the prevalence rate of the elderly has also increased recently.
Scleroderma occurs mostly in spring and autumn, and the first manifestation of most patients is a bright red macula on the face, which is limited to the cheeks and the bridge of the nose on both sides. Marginally, the appearance of rash is butterfly-shaped, commonly known as butterfly erythema, which is the most obvious local manifestation of scleroderma in the early stage.
The earliest symptoms of scleroderma were very mild. When we touch these red spots with our hands, we will feel soft, hard and not itchy.
This rash is similar to other allergic skin diseases on the face, such as cosmetic dermatitis caused by cosmetic allergy. However, although the rash of cosmetic dermatitis is also photosensitive, erythema usually does not involve the bridge of the nose and touches the edge of erythema, and there is no sense of softness and hardness. Patients with cosmetic dermatitis have obvious itching, which is attributed to the early manifestations of scleroderma.
In addition, in the early stage of scleroderma, edema erythema with different sizes and irregular shapes appeared on the back of both hands, which was symmetrically distributed and usually had no ulceration, itching and burning sensation, and was called erythema multiforme. This kind of rash is not affected by seasons, and it occurs all year round, while chilblain is easy to occur in winter, often with rot and obvious itching, which is an early manifestation of scleroderma.
What are the early symptoms of scleroderma? Scleroderma is harmless, and because it is a systemic immune disease, it is also difficult to cure. Only by grasping the best period of early treatment can patients' friends reduce the difficulty of treatment and make them recover better.
Symptoms of scleroderma
1. During the onset of scleroderma, many patients will have joint pain and stiffness, and some patients will have more serious joint redness, pain and tenderness, and sometimes these symptoms will also appear in the fingers and fingers.
In general, X-rays of scleroderma can reveal the phenomenon of bone resorption. Scleroderma patients often have symptoms of soft tissue atrophy around joints and subcutaneous calcinosis. Not only that, many patients' skin lesions occur in joints, especially the knee joint, as well as the distal ends of arms and thighs, as well as the parts where muscles and bones are attached.
2. In the late stage of scleroderma, there will be skin atrophy, and even some people will find that the joint stiffness is aggravated, and even the flexion can not be straightened and contracture, and some patients' distal fingers are broken due to ischemia.
In addition, the early symptoms of scleroderma patients may also appear muscle pain, which is manifested as muscle tenderness in arms and legs, and this symptom is related to immune inflammation.
Late symptoms of scleroderma
1. The lesions of generalized scleroderma are punctate, patchy and linear, which can be partially or completely combined. Many lesions are distributed in all parts of the body, but rarely involve the face, and the lesions tend to be combined. The symptoms of scleroderma can often be accompanied by joint pain, abdominal pain, neuralgia, migraine and mental disorder, and occasionally it can turn into systemic scleroderma.
2. The symptoms of drip scleroderma mostly occur in the upper chest, neck, shoulders, buttocks or thighs. The symptoms of scleroderma are soybean to nickel size, white or ivory cluster or linear spots, round and sometimes slightly concave. When scleroderma is active, there are purple halo around it.
3. Disabled scleroderma holosclerosis is another scleroderma reported recently, which is more common in children and girls. Inflammation and sclerosis occur in dermis, subcutaneous tissue, fascia, muscle and bone, especially in limbs, especially on extensor side. Hands, feet, elbows and knees flex and contract, rarely encroach on internal organs, and there is no Raynaud's syndrome. Patients may have lichenoid sclerosis, and other parts of the body may have typical scleroderma. This is also one of the symptoms of scleroderma.
How to treat scleroderma?
When treating this scleroderma, you need to reduce your contact with spicy food, which will have a great impact on the treatment of the disease, and you must take good care of your skin when treating scleroderma.
If you have scleroderma, there are many treatments and many drugs to choose from. When choosing drugs for treatment, you can use asiaticoside cream for external use, and if the condition is serious, you need to take it orally.
In the treatment of scleroderma, hydrocortisone sodium succinate for injection can also be used to relieve symptoms. During the treatment, you need to avoid skin infection, which will aggravate your current illness. If the condition is serious, there may be kidney disease.
This scleroderma may also lead to high blood pressure. If your blood pressure is high during your illness, you must take antihypertensive drugs to relieve the symptoms. At the same time, you need to remember to relax and face the treatment of the disease.
What should I pay attention to when taking medicine for scleroderma?
As the saying goes, three treatments and seven aftercare for chronic diseases show the importance of daily aftercare. Patients should first maintain an open-minded and cheerful mental state to avoid mental stress and mood swings; Work and housework should be done according to one's ability, not overworked, pay attention to cold and warmth, prevent colds, infections and other diseases, and pay attention to protecting limbs and joints.
Diet should be light, tepid, chew slowly, eat less and eat more meals, and don't be addicted to alcohol and tobacco; Carry out proper functional exercise with the assistance of oneself or family members, and if possible, cooperate with massage, physical therapy, medicated bath and other auxiliary treatment measures; Avoid using drugs that are unfavorable to the condition or harmful to the affected organs, and strive for the support and care of relatives, friends and units, all of which belong to the scope of self-care.
1, keep warm to avoid catching a cold. Especially in autumn and winter, the temperature changes dramatically, so it is necessary to add warm-keeping facilities in time.
2, prevent trauma, pay attention to protect the damaged skin, even minor trauma, should also attract enough attention.
3. quit smoking.
4, patients should be high protein, high fibrosis diet, avoid irritating food. If you have difficulty swallowing, you should give a liquid diet and pay attention to swallowing slowly.
5. Pay attention to the law of life and ensure sleep time.
6. Prevent mental stimulation and nervousness, and maintain a happy and optimistic mood.
How can scleroderma patients eat to be healthy?
People with severe skin sclerosis can also eat salty food, such as kelp, seaweed, oysters, salt and so on. According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, salty food has the function of softening hard mass and promoting skin softening. People with obvious skin swelling can eat more foods such as yam, coix seed, white lentils, wheat, wax gourd and cogongrass rhizome, which have the functions of invigorating spleen, eliminating dampness and promoting diuresis.
Lily has the effects of moistening lung, relieving cough, clearing heart and calming nerves. Modern pharmacological studies have proved that it can inhibit the hardening and proliferation of collagen fibers, and all patients with scleroderma can take it.
How can scleroderma patients eat to be healthy? Scleroderma is mostly caused by pathogenic factors on the basis of yang deficiency of spleen and kidney. Clinically, spleen-kidney yang deficiency and cold-dampness blocking collaterals are more common, but there are also cases in which damp-heat blocks collaterals or cold-dampness persists for a long time to turn into heat.
Dialectically speaking, people with deficiency of spleen and kidney yang and obstruction of cold and dampness are characterized by cold limbs, cold hands and feet, soreness and weakness of waist and knees, tooth trembling, decreased libido, skin sclerosis and atrophy, low skin temperature, red and swollen skin, pale tongue, teeth marks on the fat side of tongue coating, and heavy and thin pulse. , such as localized scleroderma.
If the lesion area is not enlarged, the condition is stable, and the lesion is in the stage of hardening and atrophy, you can eat warm food appropriately; Syndrome differentiation belongs to damp-heat and blood stasis, and the symptoms are skin swelling, high skin temperature, enlarged diseased skin area, and disease development. Those whose skin lesions are in the initial stage or swelling stage should not eat warm food, especially Chili, leek, wine, mutton and dog meat, but eat cold food appropriately.
Warm foods have the functions of warming middle warmer, tonifying deficiency and dispelling cold, mainly including mutton, dog meat, chicken, pigeon, sparrow, goat's milk, wine, pepper, ginger, pepper, onion, garlic, leek, brown sugar and walnut.
How do scleroderma patients eat healthily? Cold food has the functions of clearing away heat and purging fire, detoxifying and nourishing yin, mainly including cucumber, watermelon, bitter gourd, loofah, wax gourd, Sydney, mung bean, bean curd, soybean milk, lobster sauce, Chinese cabbage, lotus root, turtle, tremella, oyster and green tea.
How to eat to prevent scleroderma?
1. Esophagus is a common involved site. Avoid cold drinks and spicy and hard food.
2, usually to develop good eating habits, to ensure adequate nutrition, you can drink a small amount of soup before meals, do not take the most strenuous exercise immediately after meals, you can exercise properly, thus promoting the peristalsis and emptying of the stomach; Don't eat snacks after dinner. You can eat a small amount of liquid food when necessary. But nutrition must be balanced.
3, should be high protein, high fibrosis diet, avoid irritating food.
4. Don't smoke or drink, and avoid using drugs that constrict blood vessels such as ergot.
Summary: Scleroderma is not a dangerous disease, but it has a great impact on people's lives, and even makes people eat badly and sleep badly because of pain. We must pay attention to scleroderma at will in our life, actively treat and prevent it, and protect our health.