Treatment is aimed at prevention of complications, reduction in the activity of arthritis, reducing joint pain and stiffness. Mainly used drug treatments. Used painkillers, anti-inflammatory drugs, immunomodulatory. Treatment of rheumatoid arthritis should be comprehensive, that is why patients are often prescribed Spa treatment.
Stay in sanatoriums involves not only medication, but a number of other measures that are beneficial to the healing process. A big role in the fight against arthritis proper diet plays. Visitors of the resorts offers a specially designed diet that excludes fatty meat, milk, citrus, corn , rye and cereal. For local effects on the affected area is recommended physiotherapy: electrophoresis, magnetotherapy, radiation of the joint with ultraviolet light. During periods of remission effective massages and therapeutic exercise. In such methods of treatment is achieved positive dynamics in the recovery process.
Treatment Results
The result of treatment depends on correct selection of medicines. What kind of tool will help in your specific case, can not predict even the most experienced doctor. Therefore, the treatment is by trial and error. Noticeable relief give hormones. They significantly reduce pain, eliminate stiffness and suppress weakness. But hormones are a dangerous thing. They cause attachment. There comes a time when they should be abandoned, that becomes a real problem for patients. Combined with mud treatment medication improves the patient's condition. Only regular therapy for six months can give significant results.
The consequences of not treating
Complications are the same as in ordinary arthritis – damage to skin and eyes, heart disease, blood clots, pleurisy.
Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic inflammatory disease of connective tissue that affects mainly the small joints (most often the joints of the bones, and feet). Rheumatoid arthritis caused due to disorders in the immune system, which can be caused by genetic predisposition, infection, hypothermia, stress, pregnancy.
