Blood test rheumatoid factor 47, exceeded, is this serious? 5

Rheumatoid factor alone is excessive and cannot be diagnosed as rheumatoid.

If there are other symptoms, they should be considered together.

1.Morning stiffness: Morning stiffness in and around the joint that lasts for at least 1 hour (6 weeks or more) when you wake up in the morning.

2.Multiregional arthritis: Arthritis occurs in 3 or more areas (interphalangeal joints, metacarpophalangeal joints, wrists, elbows, knees, ankles, and metatarsophalangeal joints, etc.) with soft tissue swelling, effusion, or pain.

3.Hand arthritis: swelling and pain in at least one joint (6 weeks or more) in arthritis of the wrist, metacarpophalangeal or proximal interphalangeal arthritis.

4.Symmetrical arthritis: both joints are affected simultaneously (not necessarily symmetrically when bilateral proximal interphalangeal, metacarpophalangeal, and metatarsophalangeal joints are involved) over a course of 6 weeks or more.

5.Rheumatoid nodules: Doctors can see subcutaneous nodules on the bony process, extensor surface, or around the joints.

6.Positive rheumatoid factor: abnormal serum rheumatoid factor content as evidenced by any test (positive rate less than 5% in the normal population).

Radiography: early arthritis x-rays show swelling of the soft tissues around the joints and mild osteoporosis near the joints; In the middle and late stages, it may present with joint space narrowing, joint destruction, joint dislocation, or fusion, and bone erosion or definite bone decalcification of the diseased joint.

If the above 7 can meet 4 of the above criteria and exclude other arthritis, the diagnosis of rheumatoid can be made.

The best thing is to see a doctor. Ask your doctor for advice.

If rheumatoid factor is positive in the blood. That is, it is confirmed that he has rheumatoid disease. And not rheumatism . Rheumatoid drugs cannot be used**. All of these methods are nothing more than a temporary relief from suffering.

It is estimated to be rheumatoid arthritis, you had better go to the hospital to have a look, and don't blindly seek medical advice online.

How does Chinese medicine diagnose rheumatoid disease?

In our clinical work, we often encounter patients who think that a positive test result is rheumatoid disease, and a negative result denies rheumatism, which is actually a big mistake.

The laboratory index of rheumatoid disease is only used as a reference value for the diagnosis of rheumatoid disease, and the positive rate is high in the early and active stages of rheumatoid disease, with the highest index reaching 80%, that is, 20% of the indicators can be negative. In addition, due to the influence of medication and during the quiescent phase of rheumatoid disease, the test results may be negative. Therefore, in the diagnosis of rheumatoid, I think that the results of auxiliary examinations are only auxiliary reference values, and the diagnosis of rheumatoid disease cannot be confirmed only by positive or negative examination results.

The diagnosis of rheumatoid disease in traditional Chinese medicine mainly relies on clinical manifestations: symptoms and signs combined with pulse, and finally auxiliary examinations to confirm the diagnosis of the disease; Some patients have obvious clinical manifestations of rheumatoid such as symmetrical swelling and pain, deformity, and morning stiffness of the hand joints, but its examination results are negative, so is it not a rheumatoid disease? Therefore, a positive auxiliary test result can better support the diagnosis of rheumatoid disease, and the diagnosis of rheumatoid disease cannot be ruled out if the test result is negative.

In summary, the diagnosis of rheumatoid disease is based on symptoms and signs, and cannot be judged based on the results of examinations alone. It is hoped that rheumatoid patients reading this article should judge their condition based on their own performance.