How to treat morning stiffness rheumatoid

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There are symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis. Morning stiffness is a joint manifestation of rheumatoid arthritis, many patients will appear morning stiffness performance, so today we share how to treat morning stiffness rheumatoid arthritis.

How to treat morning stiffness rheumatoid

First: warm water soak rheumatoid arthritis in the morning, appear morning stiffness, to immediately stop activities, do not move morning stiffness joints, at this time should use hot water soak stiff joints, or to a warm water bath, and then move joints until the body's major joints.

Second: bed rest when morning stiffness lasts for a long time, you should rest in bed to reduce physical activity and protect your joints. In particular, it is necessary to limit the joint activity of morning stiffness, maintain the functional position of the joint, cushion the knee with a soft pillow, keep the knee straight, and place the foot board under the foot to prevent foot drop.

Third: pay attention to diet. The daily diet of rheumatoid arthritis patients should be light, easy to digest, without eating greasy and fat things. Pay attention to eat enough protein, a diet rich in vitamins, do not eat spicy and irritating food, eat less, eat more, drink more, and promote the excretion of drug metabolites.

matters needing attention

Rheumatoid arthritis usually should pay attention to the prevention of upper respiratory tract infection, pay attention to keep warm, avoid long stay in cold, humid environment, life rules, do not tired, tired will let their resistance decline, let bacteria, viruses have the opportunity to cause disease, easy to lead to upper respiratory infection, and infection will induce rheumatoid arthritis symptoms.