Elderly patients with rheumatoid arthritis should be how to treat

With the aging of the population; in our common rheumatoid arthritis, not only from the young and middle-aged persons during the onset of old age extended to a large number of patients and the elderly made the sea of new cases are few, this team is "growing." Therefore, elderly people have rheumatoid arthritis clinical characteristics of early diagnosis and early treatment plays a pivotal role; to improve the quality of life of elderly patients and reduce the burden on the family and society are very meaningful.

Elderly patients with rheumatoid arthritis patients under 60 years of age are different, certainly has its own characteristics: male patients with an increase in this case; acute onset were more; first arthritis in the shoulder, knee and other large joints are more ; hands and feet more pitting edema; course in the metatarsophalangeal joints and proximal interphalangeal joints affected at frequencies below the age of India.

Rheumatoid arthritis in elderly and general treatment of rheumatoid arthritis are no different, but it has its own characteristics: older people in general do not like hi static dynamic, especially after the sick, they should be encouraged to adhere to the appropriate daily activities, there difficulties, the family should be given appropriate help; to change the negative outcome of the disease, in addition to early diagnosis, the correct treatment should begin immediately, the application can rapidly improve the symptoms of long-term control of disease progression but also the joint drug therapy; elderly drug side effects the incidence of young people is about 7 times, often at the same time with the elderly suffering from high blood pressure, coronary heart disease, diabetes and other disorders, should be careful in the choice of drug in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis in the commonly used non-steroidal anti-inflammatory medicine, easy to affect the gastrointestinal tract and kidneys, the gastrointestinal tract function of the elderly poor themselves, in varying degrees of renal function decline and should therefore be chosen on the gastrointestinal tract and kidney less impact on the drug, applied dose should be small, in the use of should be closely observed, if unusual, should be to reduce or disable. The application of other drugs should also pay attention to it.