Cool weather to prevent the recurrence of scleroderma Enter December, cooling nationwide scope, some hands that end everyone will be white, purple, numb, cold, warm gradually improved after repeatedly occur. Not easy to pay attention to. In fact, this is called "Raynaud's phenomenon," often "scleroderma" early performance. After a period of time, may gradually hardened skin, joint and muscle swelling, heart, lung and kidney gastrointestinal and other organ damage. Because people do not understand this type of disease, many patients the disease progresses to a more severe when found, lost early treatment.
Scleroderma is an autoimmune disease of unknown etiology connective tissue disease, the incidence of rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus behind, living in third place. Clinical manifestations are quite different, the light only limitations skin spots or patchy sclerosis, severe extensive skin hardening, and multiple organ involvement with multiple systems, so some people think that this disease is a disease spectrum disorders. Early detection, aggressive treatment, the prognosis is of great significance.
Scleroderma can be divided into systemic sclerosis and focal scleroderma. Systemic sclerosis may be because the body's immune system dysfunction caused, and heredity, exposure to certain special substances and gender factors. The cause is still not clear.
Systemic sclerosis (systemic sclerosis) of the skin manifestations: first swelling gradually harden, thickening, thinning and finally shrink, depending on whether the affected area and visceral damage, divided into localized and diffuse. The former refers to only the fingers, face and neck, distal forearm skin and skin damage, skin and other parts of the internal organs are not impaired. The latter refers to the addition to the aforementioned performance, there abdominal skin and internal organs were damaged.
Part systemic sclerosis will gradually appear lung, kidney, heart damage, life-threatening. There is no final solution, but if early detection, through proper treatment, you can control the development of the disease, but if later found to have been caused pulmonary fibrosis, pulmonary hypertension and other problems, the treatment more difficult, and the results poor. |