Raynaud syndrome

Raynaud syndrome's disease overview

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What is Raynaud syndrome?

Raynaud syndrome is a condition of peripheral blood vessels when cold or stressful situations, reducing blood flow to supply to tissues and cells. Fingers, toes, ears, nipples and tip of the nose are the most commonly affected areas in Raynaud's disease with clinical manifestations such as changing skin colors from ruddy to white or purple blue, abnormal. Numbness in the skin, changing sensation, ... necrotic complications may appear if the circuit spasms occur for a long time.

Maurice Raynaud (1834 - 1881) is the name of a French doctor describing the disease for the first time in 1862 so his name is named for the name of the disease. Raynaud's syndrome occurs in about 4% of the population, more common in women. Age usually starts to about 15 to 30. The disease is common in cold climates.

Raynaud's syndrome is classified into two groups:

  • Raynaud Nguyen Phat: called Raynaud's disease. This is a common and less serious group.
  • secondary Raynaud: This form is not as common as the original Raynaud, but there are more heavy and often occur in the elderly group.

    • Causes of Raynaud syndrome's disease

    Currently, the cause of Nguyen Phat Raynaud has not been well known.

    In contrast, for the secondary Raynaud group, any abnormalities related to blood vessels and nerves that govern blood vessels can lead to Raynaud's syndrome. Many background conditions have been shown to be the cause of disease such as:

  • Angel scleroderma: This is a disease -related disease, which appears sclerosis and scarring on the skin, hindering blood flow to nurture
    • lupus: is an autoimmune disease, affecting the whole body, including skin and blood vessels.

    Blood disorders such as cryoglobulinemia and polyphony;

    Sjogren syndrome: Often accompanied by sclerosis or lupus.

    Buerger disease: autoimmune pathology is related to inflammation of small and medium blood vessels in the limb areas.

    Thyroid disease

  • Repeated actions that damage the arteries in the arms and legs such as typing, playing piano
  • Hand and leg injury can also lead to Raynaud's syndrome.

    • Chemicals: Exposure to some chemicals such as Vanyl Chlorine may be the cause of Raynaud's syndrome. Smoking: Nicotine in cigarettes can cause raynaud syndrome.

    Drugs: headaches or groups of cancer treatment, allergies, diets, birth control pills and beta blockers can cause Raynaud's syndrome.

    Symptoms of Raynaud syndrome's disease

    Raynaud syndrome has different clinical manifestations between patients, varying depending on the severity, frequency and time period of vasomotor spasms.

    Symptoms of the disease include:

  • Change the skin color in the affected position: When it is cold or stressed, the blood vessels reduce the amount of blood circulation, so the skin of the fingers and toes often turn white. , then turn blue, purple red and swollen. Ear, tip of the nose or nipple are other areas that can be affected with hands and feet. Skin color change does not necessarily go through the order or full of all three colors above. Different patients will have different skin color changes. Later, the circulation returns to the fingers to restore the color as usual with a burning feeling.

    • Sensory disorders: The affected areas will have numbness, parcels or aches and pains, which occur in parallel with the skin color change.

  • ulcer and necrosis: If the blood vessel contraction process repeats many times can lead to anemia that nourishes the affected areas, eventually producing skin ulcers. and necrosis. At this time, treatment is more difficult. This sign rarely occurs.

    • Patients with secondary Raynaud syndrome also face other clinical symptoms of the background disease.

    Transmission route of Raynaud syndrome's diseaseRaynaud syndrome

    Raynaud's syndrome may be a primary disease or a consequence of other background diseases. The cause of Raynaud's syndrome is not related to bacterial agents, so this is not a pathological condition of infectious properties. Healthy people in contact with people with Raynaud's syndrome are not infected.

    People at risk for Raynaud syndrome's disease

    Raynaud's syndrome can occur with everyone but those who own the following factors are more likely to get the disease:

    Risk factors of the Raynaud phenomenon include:

  • There are relatives in the family with Raynaud's syndrome, especially parents and siblings.

    • Living in a cold climate

    Women, aged 15 to 30

    Diseases such as sclerosis, lupus, thyroid disease.

    Occupational factors: Doing jobs that have to perform repeat movements often cause injuries such as workers to use drilling, vibration, typing, piano, piano, ...

  • Smoking
  • Use Beta, Ergotamine, cancer treatment, diet support, ...

    • Prevention of Raynaud syndrome's disease

    Measures that have the ability to prevent and control exacerbations such as:

  • Keep the body warm, especially the peripheral areas, must be exposed to the external environment such as hands, feet, and face area. In the cold season, it is necessary to wear gloves, warm socks and hats when going out, not to let the body cold because the cold air is a factor on the emerging element of blood vessel contractions that cause clinical manifestations. >

    • Restricted cold bath

  • When processing frozen foods should wear gloves, avoid direct contact with hands.
  • Move to warm climates: People with severe Raynaud's syndrome should consider moving to live in a warmer place.
  • No smoking
  • Do not arbitrarily use the drug without a doctor's prescription. During the medication period, if there are abnormal signs, it is necessary to report immediately to the treating doctor for timely treatment.

    • Diagnostic measures for Raynaud syndrome's disease

    Raynaud syndrome examination should include the exploitation of the pathology of the patient and the family, in collaboration with the examination of clinical symptoms. Raynaud's syndrome has other characteristic clinical manifestations, but to be more sure when making a diagnosis, the doctor may appoint more tests such as:

  • Check the cold stimulation: The patient is required to put hands in cold water to stimulate the onset of Raynaud syndrome. If the time is needed to restore the normal state of the hand that lasts more than 20 minutes, the patient may conclude that the patient has railaud syndrome.

    • Soi: The doctor will observe and detect abnormal blood vessels at the position of foundation folds under the microscope.

    Raynaud's syndrome should be distinguished from pathologies that manifest similar to peripheral vascular spasms, head artery.

    Raynaud syndrome's disease treatments

    Raynaud's syndrome treatment needs a combination of new treatment and prevention measures that can achieve the best results.

    Avoid cold is the first principle that patients need to follow, through ways such as:

  • Gloves, warm socks for the feet when going out in the winter

    • Bathing with warm water

  • Heating, massaging hands and feet
  • Move to a warmer area for severe cases

    • Patients need to eliminate other risk factors such as:

  • No smoking
  • Protect hands and feet from injuries
  • Live happily, seeking to balance life, avoid stress.

    • Limit caffeine

    Raynaud syndrome treatment with drugs

    There are many effective drugs that treat Raynaud's syndrome. Which group of drugs to choose depends on the symptoms and the extent of the disease, obey the instructions of the treating doctor.

    The groups used often have the same effect on vascular spasms, improving circulation in affected areas including:

  • Calcium channel blockers
  • Alpha inhibitors

    • Palmic pills

    Raynaud syndrome treatment by other methods

    For cases of more severe illness, some other methods can be applied in addition to drugs such as

  • Surgery to cut sympathetic nerves causing excessive reactions, helping to reduce the frequency of exacerbations.
  • Inject chemicals to block the sympathetic nerves
  • amputated areas of necrotic areas, rarely indicated.

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