Contents:
- Medical Video: New Therapies for Effectively Treating Psoriatic Arthritis
- Signs of psoriasis arthritis
- 1. Age and gender
- 2. Dry skin
- 3. Joint problems
- 4. Pain only on one side of the body
- 5. The fingers swell
- 6. Foot pain
- 7. Damage to fingernails and toes
- 8. Easy to get tired
- 9. Eye problems
- 10. Disability, especially in the fingers
Medical Video: New Therapies for Effectively Treating Psoriatic Arthritis
Psoriasis arthritis is a condition in which the body's immune system attacks your body, and causes joint pain and other symptoms. The most important thing that patients know is to recognize the initial symptoms, diagnose the disease, and how to cure it. The number of symptoms similar to this condition makes psoriasis arthritis difficult to diagnose.
Signs of psoriasis arthritis
1. Age and gender
This disease can attack various ages (including children), but appears most often between the ages of 30-50 years. Men and women are equally likely to suffer from psoriatic arthritis.
2. Dry skin
Most patients with psoriasis arthritis will have dry skin. About 30 percent of patients with psoriasis will develop psoriasis arthritis. For most people, symptoms can appear 5–10 years before arthritis (arthritis). In some cases, arthritis can appear first.
3. Joint problems
People with psoriasis arthritis will experience stiffness, pain in the joints that is characterized by redness and a feeling of warmth to the touch. Stiffness in the morning can also be a problem.
This disease is also often thought of as rheumatoid arthritis, which is caused by an autoimmune attack. Just like other autoimmune conditions, symptoms that arise can be inflammation.
4. Pain only on one side of the body
Although most cases of psoriasis arthritis attack large joints such as the feet, it is not uncommon for this disease to attack small joints such as the heel and fingers. Pain that occurs is asymmetrical, meaning that one knee can feel pain, while the other knee does not.
5. The fingers swell
Swelling of the fingers and toes is common in 40 percent of cases of patients with psoriatic arthritis. Because these symptoms rarely occur in patients with other types of arthritis, these symptoms will help doctors diagnose and differentiate between psoriasis arthritis and rheumatism.
Swelling is caused by inflammation in all tendons along the fingers and toes. This causes the fingers and toes to become "sausages" and may occur before a person has a joint disorder.
6. Foot pain
This disease can cause pain and swelling in the surrounding joints. Enthesitis is an inflammation of the area where the tendon or ligament is related to the bone.
Rheumatic patients also have pain in the soles of the feet, as well as lupus and other autoimmune diseases. Psoriasis arthritis has similar symptoms, or it can also be related to gout.
7. Damage to fingernails and toes
Arthritis psoriasis can cause your fingers and toes to change color, damage, or even detach. This symptom occurs in approximately 5 percent of patients, and is more common in men than women.
8. Easy to get tired
Just like other autoimmune conditions, psoriatic arthritis causes the body to be more tired or weak. Many factors play a role, and according to research conducted in 2010, patients with unbearable pain, disability, and psychological problems such as depression will be more easily tired. Tiredness that occurs is a result of inflammation caused by arthritis.
9. Eye problems
Problems that arise in the eye include inflammation of the eye known as conjunctivitis or iritis. This can cause blurred vision, painful eyes, redness, and sensitivity to light. However, other autoimmune diseases such as rheumatism and multiple sclerosis can also cause vision problems.
10. Disability, especially in the fingers
Arthritis psoriasis sometimes causes disability, where the fingers will become bent. About 5 percent of people who have this disease can continue to get worse, eventually experiencing itpsoriatic mutilans.
Without treatment, this can cause damage to the joints of the hands, feet, neck and lower back. When attacking the hand, a shape will appear telescoping fingers. This occurs when the bones in the fingers are absorbed into the body, causing tissue damage. As a result, the fingers will shrink.
