1, the 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.
2. Chinese medicine believes that it is caused by dryness and evil.
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.
3. Methods to prevent Sjogren's syndrome
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.
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.
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.
4. Sjogren's syndrome and sexual life
Sjogren's syndrome is an autoimmune disease that invades the exocrine glands of the whole body. The main clinical manifestations are dry mouth and dry eyes. Dry mouth is one of its characteristics, which is caused by decreased saliva secretion and is difficult to control.
You can see that the nipple of the tongue shrinks and the tongue turns red. Dry eye is caused by the decrease of lacrimal gland secretion, which leads to conjunctivitis, foreign body sensation and keratitis. A few patients may have corneal ulcer, perforation and blindness. About 70% have joint pain, which can lead to wandering and morning stiffness, but joint deformity is rare. In addition, it can also invade internal organs such as kidney, digestive tract and nervous system.
Sjogren's syndrome is related to immune dysfunction. A large number of abnormal antibodies in blood destroy endocrine glands in vivo and in vitro, leading to a series of symptoms of Sjogren's syndrome.
Sjogren's syndrome has no specific medicine, and once the gland shrinks, it is not easy to recover. Regulating immune function, such as using thymosin, can have certain effect.
Sjogren's syndrome has a great influence on sexual life. Patients with Sjogren's syndrome have atrophy of gonad and decreased secretion, which leads to dryness of mucous membrane in private parts of women with external genitalia and inability to have sex, causing discomfort and pain in the same room, especially in middle-aged and elderly women.
At present, there is no radical cure for the disease, and substitution and symptomatic treatment are the main methods. Thymosin, soup, nourishing yin and promoting fluid production have no effect on sexual life and sexual function. When using tripterygium wilfordii preparation, women will cause irregular menstruation, even menopause and other endocrine disorders, while men will suffer from sperm reduction. Once the drug is stopped, the above phenomenon will disappear and have no effect on sexual life.
Normal husband and wife life will not aggravate the illness, and harmonious sex life will only improve the quality of life.