Thursday, March 31st, 2011 at
9:36 am
Patients with autoimmune diseases have antibodies in their blood that accidentally target their own body tissues, where they can be associated with inflammation. Because it can affect multiple other organs of the body, rheumatoid arthritis is referred to as a systemic illness and is sometimes known by the term, rheumatoid disease. While rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic illness, meaning it can last for several years, patients may even experience long periods without symptoms.
The symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis generally come and go, depending on the degree of tissue inflammation. When body tissues are inflamed, the disease is most likely to be active. When tissue inflammation subsides, the disease becomes inactive. Remissions can occur spontaneously or even with treatment and can last for weeks, months, or years. During remissions, symptoms of the disease disappear, and patients generally start to feel well. When the disease becomes active again which is a relapse, symptoms return. The return of disease activity and symptoms is known as a flare.
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Tuesday, March 29th, 2011 at
9:36 am
Sunday, March 27th, 2011 at
9:30 am
Too avoid pregnancy complications, it is advisable to have babies between the age 20 and 35. But for those who conceive late, there can be pregnancy complications. But that does not mean, they cannot be warded off. You can still have safe, healthy pregnancy provided you identify the risks and inform your doctor so that you can be a healthy post 30 mom.
Intra-Uterine Growth Retardation (IUGR): This is the delay in the baby’s growth in the uterus. The risk factors for Intra-Uterine Growth Retardation are anemia, hypertension and kidney diseae. So, if you are not able to gain weight and your abdomen looks quite small,then it is the time to inform your doctor.
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Friday, March 25th, 2011 at
9:32 am
Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011 at
9:29 am
Like all people in their 60′s, my dad also loves Ice cream. Chocolate, strawberry and mango are his favorite flavor which he eats regularly since his late 30′s but he is also suffering from initial arthritis since his early 40′s. He has now severe pain in neck and lower back because of rheumatoid arthritis, he is also struggling with knee joint arthritis pain.
Is this a similar case with your near and dear one, please check that they are not eating food stuff like Ice cream, my dad has suffered a lot and I don’t want anyone to suffer from arthritis pain. Iam trying my dad to make him understand that ice cream is not good for his health and his arthritis symptoms reflect that clearly. Ice cream is a the actual cause behind his initial symptoms for rheumatoid arthritis.
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Monday, March 21st, 2011 at
9:31 am
Thursday, March 17th, 2011 at
9:34 am
Sunday, March 13th, 2011 at
9:32 am
Sunday, March 13th, 2011 at
9:29 am
Rheumatoid Arthritis Symptoms- this is was you need to know
There are many rheumatoid arthritis symptoms but many are over looked because they aren’t that severe at first. Before we explain what rheumatoid arthritis symptoms are let’s first ask the question what is arthritis? The basic definition of arthritis is an inflammation of the joints. The inflammation occurs because the joints are in pain, therefore the joints swell up trying to heal and protect the damaged joints.
What are joints?
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Friday, March 11th, 2011 at
9:30 am
Rheumatoid arthritis – a systemic disease of connective tissue, mainly affecting small joints of the type of erosive and destructive polyarthritis of unknown etiology with a complex autoimmune pathogenesis.
Causes of the disease on this day are unknown. Indirect data, such as increasing the number of white blood cell count and erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) indicate the infectious nature of the process. It is believed that the disease develops as a result of infection, which causes a compromised immune system in genetically susceptible individuals, with formation of so-called. immune complexes (of the antibodies, viruses, etc..), which are deposited in tissues and lead to joint damage. But the ineffectiveness of antibiotic treatment of RA is likely to indicate the incorrectness of this assumption.
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