Of course, the treatment of polyarthritis is best entrusted to a specialist. Only the doctor knows how to get rid of the problem, how to quickly alleviate the patient's condition with minimal negative consequences and side effects. The disease is not simple, it is extremely difficult to tolerate, deprives of the quality of life and mobility, so at the first signs it is worth immediately contacting a specialist. The sooner a therapeutic course can be started, the better its outcome.
What is this about?
Polyarthritis is a multiple arthritis, that is, a disease in which the foci of inflammation are localized in the articular region. To a greater degree of pathology, people over forty years of age are confirmed, but there are also cases of joint damage in children and adolescents.
It so happened that ordinary people often confuse when treatment for polyarthritis is needed, and when arthrosis is needed. The second term refers to degenerative processes leading to joint deformation. The condition is accompanied by pain during movement, especially during the daytime. Arthritis is caused by inflammation of the synovial membrane. The most intense sensations are in the diseased areas at night, but there is no dependence on physical activity.
Often, treatment of polyarthritis and arthrosis at the same time is required - the second condition develops against the background of the first. Arthritis often provokes a fever. There is a chronic, acute form of the disease. Although polyarthritis is always accompanied by joint pain, this symptom may also indicate other health problems.
Where did the trouble come from?
And to this day, doctors can’t say for sure that all the reasons are known that make it necessary to treat polyarthritis. Most often, the problem arises as a result of the activity of pathogenic microflora - bacteria, viruses, fungi. Sometimes arthritis is caused by a malfunction in the immune system and metabolic problems. Polyarthritis can appear after the flu and in the presence of hormonal failure. Sometimes the disease develops due to neurological disorders, injury, or hypothermia. Improper nutrition, lack of vitamins and other compounds irreplaceable for the human body can provoke a health problem. Polyarthritis has many causes; for different types and areas of localization, they can be different. The main task in the treatment of polyarthritis at the doctor is to determine the cause of the inflammatory process and to stop its effect on the patient’s body.
How to notice?
To understand that drugs for the treatment of polyarthritis are already needed, it is possible if there is pain in the joints. True, you first need to visit a doctor - only a doctor can choose the best remedies for a particular case. Additionally, severe pain is indicated for polyarthritis, as if pulsating, becoming stronger at night, when a person spends a long time without movement. Arthritis can be indicated by tumors and swelling of painful areas, redness of the skin near these areas and a local increase in temperature. As a rule, with polyarthritis, the ability to move freely is impaired, the patient feels stiff in the area of ​​the affected area. Against the background of the disease, a person weakens, his weight decreases, his appetite disappears.
If you do not understand in time what treatment of polyarthritis is necessary in a particular case, the likelihood of complications is high. The most difficult option is purulent inflammatory processes in the articular region, as well as degeneration of this part of the body. Some types of polyarthritis can provoke a violation of the activity of vital internal organs. Most often, a negative effect is exerted on the kidneys, heart, and liver. With polyarthritis, the bladder can suffer. Violations are possible severe, up to irreversible, if you do not start the therapeutic course on time.
What to do?
Do not practice the treatment of polyarthritis at home - the probability is too high that the selected methods will be ineffective, the condition will worsen. To cope with the disease, you will have to take a full-fledged comprehensive course, and only a qualified doctor can draw up such a course. Even with the use of the most modern and effective drugs and procedures, the treatment will be delayed for a long time, and it will be successful only if you treat him responsibly, take the recommended medications and do all the prescribed procedures regularly.
When choosing methods of treating polyarthritis of the legs, shoulders, and any other part of the body, you first need to understand what triggered the disease. Only by eliminating the cause can arthritis be dealt with. Also, the doctor will select painkillers and stopping inflammation means to alleviate the patient's condition. Forecasts will depend on the severity of the course, form and type, characteristics of the disease. You need to understand - the longer a person is drawn with the start of adequate therapy, the worse the prognosis.
Classic approach
Drug treatment of polyarthritis involves the use of non-hormonal anti-inflammatory drugs containing diclofenac, ibuprofen, indomethacin, ketoprofen. Trade names: Voltaren, Brufen, Indovazin. Such drugs are injected into a vein, joint, or muscle tissue. To increase the effectiveness of the course, the doctor can recommend the local use of ointments, gels (Nise, Mataren Plus). Also, hormonal preparations (Medrol, Dexamethasone) are used to inhibit the activity of inflammatory foci for injection into the affected area with polyarthritis.
To alleviate muscle spasm, drug treatment of polyarthritis is supplemented with the use of muscle relaxants, for example, Tizanil, Sirdaluda. Muscle cramps provoke quite strong painful sensations overlapping joint pain, which in total leads to a significant deterioration in the patient's condition. If the funds from this group do not show a pronounced effect, medications can be prescribed to prevent convulsions (for example, Epial, Pregabalin). Such drugs are used for long programs until the symptoms are exhausted.
What else to try?
If treatment is needed for the symptoms of polyarthritis of the shoulder, knee, or localized in any other part of the body that has formed amid severe stress, a course of antidepressants on amitriptyline, nortriptyline, trazodone, sertraline can be prescribed. The drug Tofranil is popular.
To alleviate the condition, the patient is given painkillers injections in the trigger areas of pain: Meloxicam, Nimesulide, Celecoxib. The duration of the program should not exceed two weeks.
To minimize the negative consequences of a comprehensive drug course in the treatment of the disease, it is recommended to use means to protect the digestive tract, as well as compounds that inhibit the proton pump. Popular drugs are those containing omeprazole (Omeprazole, Ultop, Omez). This is especially important if the patient is prescribed non-hormonal anti-inflammatory drugs. Typically, the duration of the course is from 4 to 8 weeks.
To improve the quality of the tissues that form cartilage, in the treatment of polyarthritis of the knee joint, shoulder, and any other area, chondroprotectors are prescribed to the patient. Such funds are used in long courses - they are often prescribed immediately for six months. Well-proven drugs are "Glucosamine", "Chondroitin Sulfate." If the six-month course of the use of such drugs does not show a significant improvement in the patient's condition, the reception is stopped.
Multifaceted approach
To improve the general condition and maintain the strength of the patient, saturate the body tissues with useful substances, treatment of knee polyarthritis, shoulder and any other is carried out using vitamin complexes. The most significant are B vitamins, but it is important to ensure the intake of ascorbic acid, retinol and tocopherol.
No less important than vitamins, trace elements, minerals. Their adequate intake of the body provides tissues with substances for quick regeneration. Especially useful are zinc and copper, manganese and selenium. Special multivitamin complexes enriched with minerals are on sale - their compositions are selected just to help people suffering from joint diseases. Well-established "Calcemin", "Supravit", "Solgar".
It is important to ensure the intake of amino acids in the body. For patients with polyarthritis, methionine, arginine are especially significant.
What else is important?
Treatment of polyarthritis of the shoulder joint, knee, and any other area of ​​localization requires you to adjust your lifestyle. The doctor will explain how to distribute the load and rest in order to minimize disturbance to the affected area. The doctor will recommend using a bandage, special insoles if the disease affects the legs. Orthoses are sometimes advised.
Based on the characteristics of a particular case, the doctor will develop a nutrition program that allows you to achieve a healthy body. The therapeutic diet will be aimed at minimizing the intake of harmful compounds, fatty, fried, and heavy foods. Instead, the focus will be on boiled and steamed, fish and vegetables, fruits. With food, as many beneficial compounds as possible should come into the body.
To alleviate the condition of the patient and accelerate healing, it is recommended to exercise regularly. A set of exercises is selected based on the specifics of the case. For symptoms of polyarthritis of the shoulder joint, treatment (as, incidentally, with other areas of localization) usually includes manual therapy. Such techniques can return mobility to diseased areas, eliminate stagnation, and prevent dystrophic changes.
With polyarthritis, physiotherapy is indicated. Use magnets, electric current, lasers, shock wave method. In some cases, it is advised to supplement the course with homeopathy.
Case features and treatment choices
Polyarthritis can be sequential, possibly simultaneous inflammation of several areas at once. If the disease proceeds in an acute form, its effects are usually reversible. The chronicle leads to uncorrectable degenerative changes. Soreness can explain the impaired functionality of certain areas, while others lose their ability to work due to tissue dystrophy.
With a mild illness that occurs, a person remains able to work. In a serious condition, the ability to work is either limited or completely lost. Since the disease has multiple etiologies, the correct diagnosis is one of the most important stages of preparation for the choice of treatment. Based on the reason, the treatment of symptoms of polyarthritis of the shoulder joint, knee and other areas of the body will be occupied by an orthopedist or rheumatologist, possibly a venereologist or specialist in infectious diseases. Sometimes the patient is observed by a therapist, but they can also be referred to a highly specialized doctor.
Rheumatoid Polyarthritis
A feature of this form is a systemic violation of the integrity of the connective tissue. Up to 70% of patients receive disability status. Three times more often the disease is detected in women. Risk group - 30-35 years. Such a disease greatly affects the quality of life. Belongs to the class of autoimmune, that is, its specific feature is the inadequate reaction of the body to its own cells, whereby the immune system takes organic structures for the “enemy”. At the moment, it was not possible to identify all the causes leading to such a violation of health. It is known that the disease can appear against the background of general poisoning and as a result of the influence of heredity, as well as due to infection, stress factors.
Many methods of alternative treatment of rheumatoid polyarthritis are known, but all of them are rather weak. When resorting to them, you should not hope for a complete cure - only the symptoms can be relieved. To achieve improvement, you need to see a doctor. The doctor will prescribe a course of medicines and medical procedures. Already at the reception, you can clarify how reasonable it is to resort to any method from the category of healers. The doctor will explain what can be of benefit in a particular case and what will only be harmful.
Case clarification
To choose an adequate treatment, you must first conduct a thorough diagnosis. This already explains why the treatment of polyarthritis at home will not prove effective - the layman simply does not have the knowledge and access to technologies that make it possible to understand why the disease appeared, and according to which scenario it develops. And without this information it is impossible to choose an adequate course of treatment.
Diagnosis begins with a collection of complaints and a medical history. The doctor reveals all the features of the case. If the disease begins gradually, the joints are affected symmetrically, we can assume the rheumatoid form, with psoriasis, the corresponding polyarthritis develops. Some diseases may be combined. There are cases when polyarthritis proceeded atypically.
To clarify the condition of the patient, they are sent for an x-ray, ultrasound, CT, MRI, samples of synovial fluid and blood are taken, ESR, creatinine clearance, AST are checked.
What to do next?
As you obtain test results, you can draw up a therapeutic program. It is not worth practicing the treatment of polyarthritis at home, only a program that is run under the supervision of a specialist will be truly effective.
A comprehensive course is developed in such a way as to restore the functionality of the diseased area, to stop unpleasant sensations, to slow the deterioration of the patient's condition. If polyarthritis is accompanied by foci of infection, an antimicrobial course is prescribed (for example, drugs on azithromycin, erythromycin, Amoxiclav). Plasmapheresis shows a good result.
If the situation is very difficult, hormonal anti-inflammatory is injected into the affected areas. Often rheumatoid polyarthritis is accompanied by osteoporosis. To minimize the risk of such a complication, it is necessary to review the diet and include in everyday life an abundance of foods rich in calcium and calciferol. Calcium supplements will benefit.
In order for the articular region to remain functional longer, massage, phonophoresis, dimexidic applications are prescribed. If the deformations are serious, conservative approaches do not show a pronounced result, the patient is sent for surgery.
Methods and Approaches
With reactive polyarthritis, it is necessary first of all to select funds that successfully stop the unpleasant manifestations of the disease. The main primary task of the doctor is to ease the pain, deactivate the foci of inflammation.
In the case of an infectious form of the disease and provoked by a metabolic disturbance in the body, it is necessary to use drugs to alleviate the symptoms and agents that can cure the main problem that led to polyarthritis as part of the therapeutic course. Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory, corticosteroids and painkillers have gained wide popularity. Apply Voltaren, Naproxen, Advil. Sometimes patients are prescribed antihistamines. In some cases, treatment is accompanied by antimicrobial therapy.
Physiological procedures are an important and indispensable element in the treatment of polyarthritis of any form and type. The procedures are aimed at easing the pain syndrome, eliminating puffiness and inflammatory processes. It is necessary to regularly visit a specialist for a massage, do ultrasound procedures and paraffin, magnetic. Barotherapy, phonophoresis, and UHF will benefit from polyarthritis. In the chronic form, regular courses must be taken to alleviate the condition. As a rule, the need for them arises in the offseason, because during this period the disease usually worsens.
If there are no contraindications, the patient is sent to a specialized sanatorium or resort for specific treatment.
How to help yourself at home?
It is not always possible to cure polyarthritis even with the help of specialized medicines and procedures in the clinic. It is almost impossible to achieve a complete cure at home - but there are certain methods that can be combined with the main therapeutic program.
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What else to try?
To relieve soreness, with a polyarthritis, you can use a potato drink. A full-fledged medical course will not replace this, but as an additional tool, it will somewhat alleviate the pain syndrome. The cooking process is quite simple. One fresh root crop is rubbed into a small slurry, mixed with a glass of kefir and used in food for ten days in a row in a glass. The next 10 days, the mixture is consumed once every two days, then another ten days - once every three days.
It is believed that the condition of the patient can be alleviated using a buttercup compress. To do this, take the inflorescences of the plant, rub them into a small gruel and squeeze the juice from it. A gauze swab is impregnated with a liquid and applied to the affected area, the compress is fixed with a cellophane film. A dry gauze dressing is applied on top. The duration of the procedure is two hours. Frequency - once daily, until the patient's condition improves.
Another treatment for polyarthritis involves the use of thistle. An infusion is prepared on the plant - a glass of water is boiled on 20 g of grass, the product is poured with it and insisted for at least two hours. In the finished medicine, gauze is moistened and applied to the diseased areas, waiting until the material dries. You can repeat the procedure daily.
An alternative application of thistle is to prepare a decoction on it. For a couple of tablespoons of the plant, you need to boil a couple of glasses of water. The product is poured into a container with boiling water and boiled for a quarter of an hour on low heat. The finished liquid is filtered and allowed to cool slightly, consumed in one day. You can use this medicine daily until the patient's condition improves.
It is believed that lava leaf can help with joint pain. There are ready-made packs with dried leaves on sale. Half of such a package (about 10 g) should be boiled and a half glasses of water, put spice into the liquid and let it cook for 10 minutes on low heat. The finished broth is filtered and allowed to cool at room temperature. Then the medicine is drunk at a time. The optimal duration of treatment is three days in a row. The broth is used once a day.
You can try to eat germinated wheat. It is believed that such a product positively affects the health of the joints and allows you to quickly defeat polyarthritis. Wheat sprouts are washed and used fresh for food. A single dose - 50-100 g. Frequency - every day, once.
Home Health Treatments
When there is a risk of polyarthritis, healers recommend paying special attention to hardening. It is believed that such procedures can prevent the disease. It is necessary to regularly wipe with cool water, sleep in a cool room and provide yourself with physical activity in everyday life. At the same time, drafts and too humid atmosphere should be avoided. You can reduce the likelihood of polyarthritis if you revise the diet.
If the precautions did not help, you can use radish, horseradish to treat the disease. Compresses are prepared from these products. It is recommended to impose them at night, in order to minimize disturbing movements of the diseased area during the exposure to a natural medicine. The preparation of compresses is quite simple - one root crop is carefully rubbed into the pulp, wrapped in clean gauze and applied to a sore area and fixed with a bandage. You can leave such a compress overnight, but with sensitive skin it is better to limit the time to a couple of hours. If pain and burning begin to bother, the bandage is removed, and the skin is washed.
No less effective and cabbage. Cabbage leaves need to be heated in the microwave or in hot water, greased with honey. Attach to a sore spot, cover with cellophane on top, secure with a bandage. Wrap on top with something warm. Compresses are better to put overnight for a month.
Another method of using compresses involves the presence of ice packs, snow. The duration of the procedure is 5-10 minutes. After removing the compress, you should stretch and massage the affected area. After 10-20 minutes, the approach is repeated, then the sick areas are again kneaded and wrapped in a warm shawl. The duration of the course is 3 weeks, the frequency of repetition of the procedures is every day.