Symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis in women

Rheumatoid arthritis is a type of arthritis. Both women and men can suffer from this disease, so when physical abnormalities occur, it is necessary to discover them in time and develop a cure. However, before treatment, you need to know clearly whether you have such a disease. The way to determine whether you have such a disease is to understand what symptoms will occur when these diseases occur.

The symptoms of a disease exist independently, because only in this way can we tell what type of disease a person has. No matter what type of disease it is, it will affect the patient's normal living habits to some extent. Only by clearly knowing the symptoms of these diseases can we treat them accordingly. What are the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis in women?

1. Joint symptoms

1. Morning stiffness: The first symptom of joints, often appears before joint pain. When joint stiffness begins to move, it causes pain and discomfort. The morning stiffness will be alleviated or disappear as the joint moves more. The morning stiffness of joints is more obvious in the morning and alleviated in the afternoon.

2. Joint swelling and pain: Mostly symmetrical, often affecting the metacarpophalangeal joints, wrist joints, shoulder joints, interphalangeal joints, ankle joints and knee joints. The joints are red, swollen, hot, painful, and have difficulty in movement.

Extra-articular manifestations

1. Rheumatoid nodules: seen in 15-20% of patients, mostly on the extensor side of the forearm that is often compressed, such as the ulnar side and the olecranon. Soft, amorphous, active nodules or rubber-like nodules fixed to the periosteum can be felt under the skin. Subcutaneous rheumatoid nodules are more common in patients with strong positive serum rheumatoid factor.

2. Rheumatoid vasculitis: Rheumatoid vasculitis is the basic pathological change of this disease. In addition to joints and tissues around joints, vasculitis can occur in other parts of the body. It manifests as distal vasculitis, skin ulcers, peripheral neuropathy, pericarditis, visceral arteritis such as heart, lungs, intestines, spleen, pancreas, kidneys, lymph nodes and testicles.

3. Rheumatoid heart disease: heart involvement, formation of rheumatoid granulomas in the myocardium, valve ring or aortic root, or lymphocyte infiltration or fibrosis in the myocardium, endocardium and valve ring.

4. Rheumatoid lung disease: Chronic fibrotic pneumonia is more common, with fibrinoid necrosis and mononuclear cell infiltration of small pulmonary vessels, fever, dyspnea, cough and chest pain.

5. Kidney damage.

6. Eye manifestations: Uveitis is a common lesion of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, and adult rheumatoid arthritis often causes keratitis.

The above introduces the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis in women. Only by clearly understanding these can we better treat rheumatoid arthritis in women in a targeted manner. When suffering from these diseases, you need to pay more attention to diet and lifestyle than in normal life, because no matter what the situation is, it will affect the condition of the disease.