What are the symptoms of internal dampness?

Internal rheumatism is also a type of rheumatic disease. Due to lack of protection, the body is in a cold state for a long time. Rheumatoid arthritis is a type of rheumatic disease. It is mainly caused by long-term contact with cold water or wind. Once internal rheumatism occurs, it is very difficult to treat. This disease is like being engraved in the bones. It is very difficult to eradicate. Most patients can only experience relief. So what are the symptoms of internal rheumatism?

symptom

① Morning stiffness: Joint stiffness is more obvious in the morning and is relieved after activity, which is called morning stiffness. Usually after getting up, the affected joints are stiff and painful, and movement is limited. As time goes by, movement increases and the stiffness eases. Stiffness first occurs in the finger joints, and you cannot make a fist in the morning. If the disease progresses, you may feel stiffness all over your body. The degree of joint stiffness can be used as an indicator to evaluate the changes in the disease and activity. The longer it takes to get up in the morning, the more serious the condition.

② Pain: The fingers, wrists, toes, and ankle joints are swollen and painful first, either singly or multiple times, one after another, gradually spreading to the elbows, shoulders, knees, iliac joints, and temporomandibular joints, and the disease is symmetrical. The pain is often aggravated by recurrence of the disease or by weather changes or cold stimulation.

③ Swelling: There is inflammatory effusion in the affected joint cavity, which manifests as diffuse swelling or redness and swelling in the joints, mainly in the four small joints. The finger joints are mostly fusiform and swollen. When the condition is relieved, the joint swelling may disappear.

④ Movement disorders: Movement disorders are often caused by inflammatory pain and soft tissue swelling. As the disease progresses, muscles atrophy, fibrous tissue proliferates within bone joints, and the tissues around the joints become tough, making it impossible for the joints to resume normal functional activities. When the disease develops to the late stage, the joints become ankylosed or subluxated, the metacarpophalangeal lateral deviation occurs, and the finger joints become goose-neck, telescope-shaped, bouquet-shaped or hook-shaped deformities.

Extra-articular manifestations

① Rheumatoid subcutaneous nodules: About 20% of patients with this disease have subcutaneous nodules. It is more common in the highly active stage of rheumatoid arthritis.

② Rheumatoid vasculitis: It can affect blood vessels, skin, muscles, heart, nerves and other tissues, and is the basis of extra-articular damage.

③ Cardiopulmonary damage: Rheumatoid arthritis can affect the pericardium, myocardium and endocardium, among which pericarditis is more common.

④Nervous system manifestations: Mild cases include paresthesia or dullness, and decreased sense of touch. Severe cases may lead to activity disorders.

⑤Other manifestations: eye damage, manifestations of Sjögren's syndrome, splenomegaly, lymphadenopathy, anemia, leukopenia, as well as chronic gastritis and ulcerative colitis.