Your doctor advised you to protect your joints during the cold season (part 1)

This is a major disease in women, middle-aged, prolonged arthritis with acute swelling of the joints, patients often swollen joint pain, fever, may have manifestations in other organs.

When cold temperatures go down, the most common joints are small joints in the hands, wrist joints, elbows, knees, ankles, toes, both sides. In the morning, when the patient wakes up, the patient feels a hard feeling at the joint, hard to move. This sign is most pronounced in the wrists and hands, causing the person to do things like folding, wrist rotation ... one or several hours, reducing the feeling of joint stiffness.

According to Dr. Dung, cold weather, the disease is often encountered in the office staff, computer typing ... is neck pain, lumbar pain, inflammation of the adhesion of tendons to the bone head in muscular pain ( fibromyalgia). Caused by the cold weather, the muscles shrink to heat (cold tremors), posture "shoulder to shoulder, neck neck" contraction of the muscles in the neck to shrink to maximize heat exchange with the surrounding cold environment . These postures must be maintained for a long time, causing the muscles of the spine to remain in a long position, causing fatigue and muscle weakness. Can be painful one or both sides of the shoulder, limiting the movement of the spine as bending, pacing, tilt ... Symptoms or accompanying state is fatigue, headache, insomnia ...

When exposed to cold, fingertips, toes are white, stiffness due to anemia, then they become purple, tightening. This is a manifestation of spasmodic arteries in Raynaud's syndrome, a common manifestation of scleroderma. Scleroderma is a systematic disease, due to an abnormal immune system, which manifests itself in all the organs in the body, which are often seen as thickening of the skin, blurring or loss of facial wrinkles, difficulty Open mouth, calcium deposits in the organization under the skin, reduce secretions of the glands such as salivary glands, tears, digestive lining, pulmonary fibrosis, pericardial effusion, pleural membrane ...