Can Diet Help Relieve Rheumatoid Arthritis?

Rheumatoid Arthritis is an immune disease with the feature of joints attacked. It’s a long-course disease and needs a comprehensive treatment, including medicine treatment, physical treatment, sports treatment, even surgery treatment. And in the daily life, diet is also important. Can Diet Help Relieve Rheumatoid Arthritis? You will get the answer from the article below:

I. The diet for Rheumatoid Arthritis patients should be light. They are always suffering from the disease accompanied with medicines. Light food can increase their lure to eat and keep their spleen and stomach function, which improves their ability to resist the disease.

II. Can Diet Help Relieve Rheumatoid Arthritis? Some food is good at relieving the joints’ inflammation, such as vegetable and fruits, which meet the demand for vitamin, microelements and cellulose and improve metabolism. This kind of food has the effect of heat-clearing and detoxifying so as to relieve the inflammation of Rheumatoid Arthritis. Other vegetables like Chinese yam, hyacinth bean, bean curd, celery, balsam pear, towel gourd, lentinus edodes and black fungus, are helpful to relieve the symptoms of local redness, swelling, heat and pain.

III. Can Diet Help Relieve Rheumatoid Arthritis? There are some foods not proper for Rheumatoid Arthritis patients.

① The high-fat food, such as beef, mutton, milk products, has a strong stimulation, so it’s not proper for patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis.

② And seafood should also be forbidden for Rheumatoid Arthritis patients because it has uric acid inside, which will form urate crystal to worsen the RA once absorbed by human body.

③ A research shows that under the same condition, patients who took 6 pieces of candy is not getting well even worse, but the rest patients are getting better. So we draw the conclusion that, Rheumatoid Arthritis patients should eat less or not eat sweetmeat(candy, chocolate).


Can Diet Help Relieve Rheumatoid Arthritis? Now here we draw the conclusion that the answer must be yes! But it differs according to different food’s nature.

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