Watch out for diseases that cause joint pain and pain when the rainy season comes

Cold rain easily causes peripheral blood vessels to shrink, reduce blood supply to peripheral organs, including skin, muscles, joints causing aches and pains in the musculoskeletal joints, muscle cramps in the shoulder area, waist.

According to Dr. Bui Hong Thien Khanh, Head of Orthopedic Trauma Department, Hospital of Ho Chi Minh City University of Medicine and Pharmacy, the weather changes from hot sunshine to flood to accompany cold wind, which makes peripheral blood vessels shrink. again. This condition reduces blood supply to peripheral organs such as skin, muscle, and joints, causing symptoms such as musculoskeletal pain, muscle cramps in the shoulder area, waist.

Dr. Khanh said more than 90% of patients who visited the orthopedics department complained about joint pain, often in middle and senior age.Pain symptoms are the result of arthritis , osteoarthritis, and the patient always feels pain in joints such as the joints of hands, knees, shoulder joints or groin. Not only pain, joints are also swollen, especially difficult to work in the early morning in cold weather. Osteoarthritis does not distinguish the region, but is more common in postmenopausal women, who have been working harder and more prone to this disease.

Osteoarthritis does not distinguish regions, but is more common in postmenopausal women.(Artwork: Menshealth).

The current weather pattern is also easy to make the floor wet, slippery, which is a dangerous factor that leads to the risk of falling, especially older people. Elderly people hospitalized due to femoral neck fracture at the Hospital of Ho Chi Minh City University of Medicine and Pharmacy are mostly falling on the floor of the house, steps, toilets, stairs .

Doctor Khanh explains: In the elderly, the walking function is greatly affected by the inherent age and medical condition. In addition to the carelessness of family members as well as the subjectivity of the patients themselves, which led to many accidents of broken head under the bone, broken head on the arm bone, ankle fracture, thoracic spine fracture, waist, fracture of the femur. Depending on the type of injury, as well as the extent and condition of internal medicine, the doctor will consider surgery or conservative treatment such as cast, lying in bed .

In addition, the hospital also recorded cases of injuries due to traffic accidents, labor accidents and activities. Traffic accidents do not exclude anyone, but young people are more common. Slippery roads are easy to cause accidents when participating in traffic, leading to skin rupture, tendon rupture, muscle tendon rupture, fractures, dislocations. Severe or mild injuries also need to be managed properly, patients should go to specialized medical clinics for examination and treatment.

Work accidents also occur this season due to carelessness of workers or employers while not having the necessary protective equipment. Outdoor construction, decoration and production works when being hit by rain, wind or storm are easily prevented or cause accidents. Victims are usually young men with a serious injury, possibly accompanied by multiple injuries.

To prevent osteoarthritis when the rainy season comes, Dr. Khanh advises people to maintain exercise every day. Exercise is considered a precious medicine, very useful for human health and effective in reducing pain. In addition, you need to design yourself a reasonable diet like foods rich in vitamin C and E, calcium, drink plenty of water to maintain smoothness between joints. It is best to drink 2 glasses of milk a day, eat two meals a week to avoid osteoporosis, a common cause of osteoarthritis causing pain.

To prevent osteoarthritis, people should maintain exercise every day.

In the home with the elderly, the family should pay attention to drying the floor, the floor, not letting the elderly go alone up and down stairs or steps. Particularly for elderly and weak people who have a high risk of falling, they should go to the toilet at the bed at night or have family members accompany them. Pants need to be cut short, prepare slippers not too slippery, walk with frames or crutches to help . Health workers need to remind people about this point.

To prevent traffic accidents, people need to participate in conscious traffic, especially the rainy season must be more cautious, in some cases raincoats or umbrella cover become the cause of the accident. Be careful not to squeeze the front brake of the car, run slowly, observe carefully to avoid stagnant water holes that are obscured . In addition, there are many cases of patients hospitalized due to falling from the roof when roofing or roofing. cut off branches in the yard, climb stairs or chairs when the floor is slippery . So people need to be alert.

According to Dr. Khanh, musculoskeletal aches and pains often have two treatments.The first is not to use the drug, including proper resting, ice packs of inflammation, and physical therapy to regain function. Secondly , it can be used in combination with medication if there is a lot of pain, such as pain relief, anti-inflammatory, and muscle spasms. However, the drug may cause side effects such as increased liver enzymes, stomach pain or dizziness, lethargy .