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Ankylosing spondylitis patients diet five points for attention!

For patients with ankylosing spondylitis, it is necessary to carry out anti-inflammatory diet, low starch diet, smoking cessation, alcohol free + vitamin supplement and other important matters. Let's take a look at the specific implementation methods

food precautions for patients with ankylosing spondylitis

1. Eat in moderation. The diet should be regular and quantitative. The soft, hard, cold and hot food should be suitable for ankylosing spondylitis. Do not overeat for fear of physical weakness and insufficient nutrition, increase the burden on the spleen and stomach, and damage the digestive function.

2. Diet should be light. Rheumatoid arthritis patients are often suffering from pain, but also long-term with drugs. When the disease occurs, the tea and rice are not fragrant, so the food should be light. On the one hand, it can keep a good appetite, on the other hand, it can keep a good function of spleen and stomach transport to enhance the disease resistance.

3. Pay attention to diet. Some patients with rheumatoid arthritis have a long course of disease. If the diet is too strict after the disease, it will affect the absorption of nutrition for a long time, and it will be harmful to the recovery of the disease.

4. Treat food tonic and medicine tonic correctly. It is beneficial for patients with rheumatoid arthritis whether by food or medicine, but it must be carried out according to the condition and the function of spleen and stomach. For example, milk, soymilk, wheat milk and chocolate are good nutrition products, but the body is hot and humid or the tongue coating is sticky. If you eat more, you will feel abdominal distension and discomfort, and you will not think about food. Although ginseng, Auricularia auricula and donkey hide gelatin can nourish Qi and blood, but the spleen and stomach are not in harmony or the damp and hot ones will block Qi and help dampness, but the disease will not go away, and the disease will increase.

5. Diet should not be partial. Chicken, duck, fish, grains, vegetables, fruits and fruits should not be ignored, and reasonable collocation is also a dietary notice of ankylosing spondylitis.

What are the early symptoms of ankylosing spondylitis?

1. Reduction of chest expansion:

Patients will have chest pain symptoms, some will be accompanied by radiation intercostal neuralgia. This is due to the development of the disease to the thoracic spine and the involvement of costospinal joints. Only a few patients find that the chest is not fully expanded when they inhale. Because of the ankylosis of costospinal joint, it can be found that the thorax can't move when inhaled and can only breathe by diaphragm. Under normal circumstances, the maximum inspiratory and expiratory activity can reach more than 5cm in the fourth intercostal area. In the later stage, due to severe kyphosis and loss of the ability of thoracic expansion, the pulmonary ventilation function decreased significantly.

2. Complications of peripheral arthritis:

Hip joint is the most common, with 35% of patients. The disease is usually bilateral, with slow onset and rapid flexion contracture and rigidity. In order to maintain upright position, the knee often has compensatory flexion. Shoulder joint is the second predilection site. Occasionally, there is knee joint disease. In addition, there are tenderness points in the exoskeleton of other joints, which mainly occur at the junction of thoracic and costal region, spinous process, ilium ridge, trochanter of femur, tibial node, ischial node and heel. Sometimes these symptoms can also appear early.

3. Extraskeletal lesions:

Severe cases can develop acute uveitis, which can occur as high as 25%. The symptoms of ankylosing spondylitis include arteritis, aortic insufficiency, cardiac enlargement, atrioventricular block and pericarditis. Pulmonary lesions are mainly progressive fibrosis of the upper lobe. Neuropathy is often secondary, with spontaneous atlantooccipital subluxation and cauda equina compression. The latter presented with dysuria and numbness in the sellar area of the perineum.

4. Low back pain and spinal stiffness:

This is the most obvious symptom of ankylosing spondylitis. The occurrence of low back pain is slow and dull. It is unclear where the pain is, sometimes involving the buttocks. The pain can also be very serious, concentrated near the sacroiliac joint, radiated to the iliac spine, the greater trochanter of the femur and the posterior part of the femur. At first, the pain is bilateral or unilateral, but it becomes bilateral several months later, and the lower lumbar stiffness occurs. Morning stiffness is a very common symptom that can last for hours. Long term inactivity makes the stiffness more obvious. Patients often complain that it is very difficult to get up because of stiffness and pain. They can only turn sideways and roll down the edge of the bed to stand up.