How to prevent rheumatoid arthritis?
The prevention of rheumatoid arthritis in daily life has always been a matter of concern, so how to prevent rheumatoid? Today, we will briefly talk about the prevention of rheumatoid arthritis.
1. prevention and reduction of infectious opportunities
Although the number of genetic susceptibility genes for rheumatoid arthritis is large, we today include individuals carrying susceptibility genes as one of the high-risk factors. According to the etiology of rheumatoid arthritis, the prevalence of rheumatoid arthritis is higher in women than in men. There is evidence that estrogen is associated with rheumatoid arthritis. the prevalence of rheumatoid arthritis is higher in women between the ages of 30 and 50. If we have both of these conditions, we can call them high-risk groups.
In preventing the development of rheumatoid arthritis, the high-risk group is the same as the general population in terms of precautions.
Infectious diseases closely related to rheumatoid arthritis, in which the infection process leads to disruption of the immune system and triggers the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis, are the most convincing etiological understanding. Common infectious diseases include bacterial colds of the upper respiratory tract, diseases such as pharyngitis, and lung infections pneumonia. What kinds of bacteria and viruses can cause rheumatoid arthritis? How does this start? These questions are not quite clear, but there is nothing wrong with preventing infectious diseases.
Preventing infectious diseases, developing good hygiene habits, living habits, exercise habits, and improving physical fitness are the best ways to prevent not only rheumatoid arthritis, but also other diseases. The iron has to be hardened by itself, and the right memory is not dry.
The Chinese medicine believes that "wind, cold and wet mixed for paralysis", wind, cold, wet three evil is the causative factor, but only the physical environment factors, not the causative factor, wind, cold and wet environment and cold and wet, easy to catch a cold, pharyngitis and other infectious diseases, given the cause of infection stimulation rheumatoid arthritis, it can be considered that the cold and wet environment is the external environment that may induce rheumatoid arthritis.
2. maintain the intestinal flora health
In recent years, research on intestinal flora has become increasingly hot, and new insights into autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis have emerged, with initial infections stemming from abnormalities in the intestinal flora. One view is that certain bacteria in the gut flora may be directly involved in the immune abnormalities of rheumatoid arthritis; another is that dysbiosis of the gut flora leads to disruption of the intestinal barrier, causing certain bacteria to invade and induce rheumatoid arthritis, or that certain substances, such as type II collagen, enter the bloodstream and induce an immune response.
Maintaining healthy intestinal flora is closely related to our dietary habits. In general, a diet high in protein, sugar and fat is a harmful bacterial community for the body; conversely, foods high in dietary fiber foster a rich community of beneficial bacteria. Vegetables, fruits, mixed grains and other such foods not only enrich and improve our food structure at the nutritional level, but also provide rich food for human probiotics, which are of great value to the ecological environment of the intestinal flora.
3. Prevent oral infectious diseases
Chronic periodontitis, gingivitis and other diseases may be related to the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis. Foreign studies have found that monoporous protein gums can express peptide chain arginine deiminase, which converts translation protein or arginine in peptides into citrulline, thus changing the structure and function of citrulline protein and producing anti-CCP antibodies, which is the highest specific antibody in the serum of rheumatoid patients.
Pay attention to oral health, timely management of related oral diseases, and maintain good oral hygiene habits to prevent oral diseases and thus block the meridians that may trigger rheumatoid arthritis.
4. maintain a good psychological state
There is a negative correlation between psychological stress and negative emotions such as depression and anxiety. In this study, a gene was found to be associated with ankylosing spondylitis, rheumatoid arthritis, and depression. These may prove that in some patients with rheumatoid arthritis, we meet patients who are more severe and often have certain personality traits, intelligent, sensitive, strong, hardworking, responsible and self-striving.
For patients with rheumatoid arthritis, the factors that trigger the disease are often the ones that make rheumatoid arthritis flare up and lead to repeated treatments. Most of these factors are related to our own characteristics, whether they are susceptibility genes, personality, temperament, emotions or lifestyle behavioral habits. From this perspective, the treatment and recovery of rheumatoid arthritis has a lot to do with the patient himself. Treatment simply has to be standardized. Our own various factors are different for each person. We cannot underestimate the decisive role of our own perceptions and behaviors on our health.
With all of the above, we can visualize that the prevention of rheumatoid arthritis can start with these 4 aspects.
