A chronic disease that afflicts joints and surrounding or rheumatoid tissues. The patient has several signs of swelling in the affected person’s joints, fever, fatigue, and pain.
The symptoms are exacerbated by increased physical stress and weight. The patient feels the pain in the joints in the morning. This pain is often accompanied by stiffness in the tissues. The joints are most susceptible to rheumatism. The joints of the foot, fingers, ankles, knees, elbows, The sedator feels pain during movement, or may be accompanied by joint movement other symptoms, including:
1 – loss of appetite, drought or vomiting in some cases with high temperature.
2 – limited joint movement, either because of the roughness of joints or as a result of pain.
3 – change in the color of the joints and swelling or high temperature.
4 – may appear redness in the skin with the appearance of some scars or infections.
5. Change in the shape of the joints, such as the joints of the toes and hands precisely.
6 – sense of rotation when changing the position of the patient and sitting as a result of anemia that is likely to affect the patient, anemia is attributed to the bone marrow activity, which is mainly responsible for the manufacture of red blood cells.
7. Rheumatoid patients may suffer from inflammation of the eye stream, frequent itching or alternating heartburn.
The main cause of rheumatism is still unknown, but probably due to a lack of immune system or reverse reaction, so that the cells of the body attack some of this so-called “autoimmune diseases,” and may also occur as a result of the type of viruses attacking tissues, Or as a result of polycystic ovary infection in childhood, it is worth noting that women are more likely to be infected than men, especially for age groups ranging from 20 to 60 years.
Rheumatism does not affect reproduction, but the patient is advised to use some drugs that are warned to take during pregnancy because they cause some abnormalities affecting the fetus, and the pregnant woman should coordinate with the rheumatologist and pregnancy specialist to avoid such a problem.
The effect of rheumatism during the menstrual cycle is increased due to the retention of fluids and salts in the body due to the increased secretion of estrogen and progesterone, as a result of the instability of the psychological state in that period. Blood is concentrated in the lower back area alternately in some women from the beginning of the menstrual cycle until its end .
Different treatments vary with age, disease and symptoms associated with the disease. For example, medicines given to pregnant women differ from others.