Symptoms of Sjogren's syndrome
Sjogren's syndrome often occurs in postmenopausal women or women after 40 years old, and the incidence rate is about 0.3~0.4%, which is as high as 0.77% in the elderly population, and most of them belong to sentimental women.
It is difficult to explain why this is so from the perspective of modern medicine. There are only some theories and speculations. For example, Sjogren's syndrome is associated with decreased estrogen levels.
Chinese medicine believes that it is caused by dryness.
The most obvious symptoms of Sjogren's syndrome are dry mouth and eyes. Because it is a chronic inflammatory autoimmune disease, the treatment effect of western medicine is average.
Although the corresponding disease name is not recorded in the ancient books of traditional Chinese medicine, it can be distinguished from its main symptoms such as dry eyes, dry nasopharynx and wrinkled skin that it is caused by dryness. Due to dryness, qi, blood and body fluid are damaged, resulting in the loss of yin and body fluid.
Methods of preventing Sjogren's syndrome
1. Diet: Eat more foods that nourish yin and moisten dryness.
Pay attention to hydrating in autumn and winter, and eat more foods such as radish, lotus root, water chestnut, pear, honey, etc., which moisten the lungs and produce fluid, nourish yin and moisten dryness. Pear, in particular, has the functions of promoting fluid production to quench thirst, relieving cough and resolving phlegm, clearing away heat and reducing fire, moistening lung and removing dryness, and is suitable for people with excessive internal heat, dry throat and sore throat.
In addition, in autumn, we should try to eat less or not to eat hot and dry products such as pepper, onion, ginger, garlic and pepper, and eat less fried and greasy food, so as not to aggravate the discomfort of autumn dryness.
2. Emotion: adjust bad emotions in time.
Negative emotions such as nervousness and anxiety can easily make people lose their appetite, affect the digestion and absorption of food, and reduce human immunity.
Therefore, we should pay attention to be optimistic at ordinary times, and often go to places with fresh air to bring forth the old and bring forth the new, so as to restrain "qi" and prevent lung qi from being hurt by dryness and evil.
3. Exercise: Exercise regularly to stay young.
The survival time of human cells is limited, about 28 days. In this process, exercise will make your body cells have a benign replacement.