With the onset of autumn cold and damp, many are surprised to learn that they have ... joints. These are the "connection" of bones that are suddenly starting to ache, hurt, grind and otherwise annoy their owners by prichinechasche only two diseases - arthritis or osteoarthritis. These are two completely different diseases and treat them differently.
Arthritis - a group of diseases in which the primary joint inflammation, sometimes one, and often several at once. The cause may be an infection, often quite harmless, like the common cold. Arthritis can occur at different ages, but the most difficult and dangerous of them - Rheumatoid - most often affects people in their most productive, from 30 to 50 years. Women suffer three times more often than men because female hormones increase inflammation. Arthritic joint is hot, swollen, stiff. If arthritis is left untreated, it can bring to a disability within 1-2 years. Arthrosis - is also a group of diseases that are characterized by changes in the primary tissues of the joint, most often they occur with age or after an injury. Gradually accumulate microtrauma of the cartilage lining the joint, there is pain, limited movement. And only then often joins and inflammation.
Joint pain is so common that many people do not pay serious attention to the early signs of the disease. In the course are all kinds of ointments, rubbing, heating, massage, etc. Fans of traditional medicine is tied to aching joints mug, horseradish, nettles, they soar in the hay, turpentine and other baths, and even enjoy the warm manure. But in fact, the sooner started competent treatment, the better the chance to reduce the unpleasant symptoms is much higher, although completely cure these diseases medicine has not learned. More educated people are also at pains in the joints start to drink handfuls and use as ointments analgesics from the group of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) such as diclofenac, ibuprofen.
Self-medication is dangerous because the pain for a while you can really take off, but the disease itself is not a cure - explains rheumatologist doctor Nikolai Zamantsev highest category, PhD. - We are faced with patients whose disease has already gone too far. The most severe arthritis are chronic for only three months. But if treatment is initiated in a timely manner, at an early stage, they can be completely cured - in recent years, this result is achieved in about half of patients. Neglected diseases is much more difficult to treat. In addition, the people's money will never be compared with modern efficiency, imagine how much effort you need to prepare a hay bath - much easier to take a pill.
- Of course, the main thing for the patient, so that we, the doctors helped remove joint pain, sometimes unbearable, and only then applied the so-called basic agents, for example, immunosuppressants - drugs that inhibit the activity of the immune response; or hondroprotektory, i.e. drugs that restore the fabric. For pain and reduce inflammation in the treatment of diseases of the joints used NSAIDs. However, these drugs have side effects, and among them the most serious such as stomach bleeding, and even the most experienced of my fellow rheumatologists often delayed the replacement of drug or dose reduction.
- At the same time, not less rapidly and efficiently to relieve pain and reduce inflammation helps warming up ointments, including rheumatology and traumatology recommended and widely used Kapsikam. Such ointments not as formidable side effects, like NSAIDs, although analgesic and anti-inflammatory effect of warming ointments not inferior to many of NSAIDs.
As explained by N. Zamantsev, warming ointments contain substances that have vasodilator effects and irritate the sensitive nerve endings. Because ointment and has an analgesic effect. Local skin irritation it causes redness, strengthens blood circulation and trophism of the internal organs, which are innervated by the same spinal cord segments. A further irritation in the corresponding segment of the spinal cord and causes the activation of extra analgesic system which impedes pain impulses in the cerebral cortex and improves the portability of pain.
However, there are rules for the safe use of warming ointments to be aware of.
- Any such ointment must first test the sensitivity of the skin. Squeeze 0, 5 cm and apply ointment on the skin after a few hours notice the reaction. If the drug is easily tolerated and no allergic reactions as rash, redness and swelling, you can use it to aching joints, dealing with about a teaspoon of the tool. When you feel the heat, the ointment should be rubbed. If the place of rubbing too painful and sensitive, you can rub a little higher or lower.
- For the first time it is recommended to be warming ointment before going to sleep at night. The next day, if the medicine has been transferred successfully, apply it three times a day at the same dosage. In the following days, you can apply a means twice (morning and evening), but slightly larger number.
- After rubbing ointments warming aching joints should wrap up something warm such as wool fabric. If arose burning too much already oiled skin with moisturize with petroleum jelly.
-Sogrevayuschie Ointment should not touch the mucous membranes. Therefore, after using the ointment it is recommended to wash your hands with warm soapy water.
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