Rheumatology Pavilion | Dry syndrome is just "dry"?

Author:Guangdong Provincial Hospital Time:2022.08.16

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People often say that rheumatism, Chinese medicine is called "paralysis disease", which is closely related to the lack of righteousness of the human body and feels the evil of wind, cold, humidity, and heat. How to care for righteousness and effectively avoid the invasion of external evils? "Rheumatology Pavilion" will regularly push the science popularization knowledge about rheumatism prevention and treatment, teach you to stay away from rheumatism and escort the strong muscles!

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He Yiting, chief physician of the Department of Rheumatology, Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine

On this day, a patient came from the clinic, Miss Zheng, who had always felt dry mouth when he was young, but he was not attentive, so he missed the best treatment time. As the age increases, the condition is getting worse. In the end, cough and sputum continued, and the breathing was not smooth.

After a related examination in the hospital, it was found that Miss Zheng suffered from a dry syndrome, which led to the lung fibrosis that could not be reversed. If it was found to be treated as soon as possible, it may not be so regrettable! In fact, this situation is not uncommon clinically, so why did not find it in the early days?

"Dry syndrome", as the name suggests, makes people feel very dry, as if living in summer but not drinking water, and feel uncomfortable. Can you solve it so dry and drink more water? No, this symptom is not alleviated by drinking water, it is actually a disease. From a medical perspective, dry syndrome is an autoimmune disease that will invade the tear glands and saliva glands such as exogenous gland, causing dry eye and dry oral symptoms. And this degree of dryness is strong, making patients very hard.

In addition to the symptoms of "dryness" as the main manifestation, the dry syndrome can also damage other organs system of the human body, just like the patient above. It is often hidden and difficult to detect. This systemic damage is largely irreversible, so they must be found and treated as soon as possible. So what system damage does dry syndrome cause?

1. Skin damage

Drying syndrome can cause skin lesions, such as vitiligo, hair loss, skin dryness, starch sample changes, and skin lymphoma.

2. joint muscle damage

Drying syndrome constantly combined with rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus and other diseases. These diseases can cause arthritis and fibromycles, often leading to joint pain or muscle pain in patients, which is difficult to bear.

3. Respiratory damage

Common damage to dry syndrome is intermediary pulmonary disease and tracheal dryness. These changes will cause patients to repeatedly develop pneumonia. In the later stage, it will cause breathing difficulties and even further endanger other organs.

4. Damage to cardiovascular system

Drying syndrome causes heart damage in clinical cases, such as cardiac conduction blockage, arrhythmia, heart valve disease, myocarditis, and pericarditis. In addition, the disease can also cause vasculitis, such as intravenous thrombosis, embolism, purple epilepsy, necrotic vasculitis, etc.

5. Urinary system damage

Intective nephritis is another major common damage to dry syndrome. Once the kidneys are damaged, a series of secondary pathogens will cause hypokalemia, cartilage, kidney stones and even paralysis. And taking a lot of Chinese medicine and western medicine must be affected, further increasing treatment difficulties.

6. Neurological damage

Drying syndrome will cause nervous system damage, including central nervous system, peripheral nervous system, and autonomic nervous system. There are many symptoms of nervous system damage, such as headache, limb pain, numbness, or other nerve symptoms. Some need to combine imaging science In order to identify the examinations such as EEG.

7. Other damage

Studies have shown that patients with dry syndrome are more likely to suffer from thyroid dysfunction, thyroiditis, lymphoma and other diseases, and are more likely to have psychological diseases such as anxiety and depression.

It is not difficult to see that the clinical manifestations of dry syndrome are diverse, and the diagnosis is difficult. At present, the study of this disease is not deep enough, and treatment is also a worldwide problem. For traditional Chinese medicine, you can discriminate the treatment of dialectics. Different treatment methods are used according to different evidence, such as nourishing yin, moisturizing, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, etc., it still has a good effect on some patients. Therefore, focusing on prevention and early treatment can prevent the progress of the disease. If there are symptoms such as dry eyes, dry mouth, etc., you should see the doctor in time, and improve the relevant examination to help doctors diagnose and treat as soon as possible.