Kidney involvement: manifested as tubular injury, frequent urination at night, and then renal tubular acidosis leading to periodic hypokalemic muscle paralysis;

In addition, Sjogren's syndrome can also cause the esophagus, liver, pancreas involved in the corresponding symptoms.

3 Is Sjogren's syndrome well treated?

Sjogren's syndrome is a multi-system damaged disease, which ranks second only to rheumatoid arthritis and is the most common connective tissue disease in China.

Most patients only have gland damage as the main manifestation, and only a few patients have more serious organ damage.

Sjogren's syndrome is indeed a chronic disease that cannot be completely cured, but it can be prevented and controlled.

As long as patients are treated in a regular rheumatology department, the disease condition is assessed, an individualized treatment plan is formulated, and continuous and regular treatment can effectively avoid the deterioration of the disease.

Traditional Chinese medicine generally believes that sjogren's syndrome belongs to the category of "dryness", which is related to the feeling of external dryness and self-generated dryness in the body.

To avoid the intrusion of external dryness, it is necessary to improve the living environment that is too warm and dryness, and avoid the long-term invasion of warm and heat toxic evil; Moderate diet, avoid overeating warm and dry, spicy food, such as chili, ginger, Sichuan pepper, garlic, onion, pepper, mutton, dog meat, venison, horse meat, dried fruit, barbecue, frying, biscuits, fried food, tobacco and alcohol; Avoid contact with toxic chemicals to prevent toxic damage.

Since the syndrome of sjogren's syndrome is mainly characterized by Yin deficiency and dry heat, patients are usually suitable for eating yam, water chestnut, carrot, cabbage, pear, watermelon, lily, sweet potato, tomato, apple, sugarcane, melon and other foods. These foods are easy to digest and absorb, can produce fluid and nourish Yin, and have a certain dietary therapeutic effect.

At the same time, ensure that the food is fresh, meat and vegetables, eat less and eat more is the dietary principle of patients with Sjogren's syndrome, but also pay attention to maintain a good mood, avoid anxiety and anger, and prevent bad emotions from damaging Yin blood.

4 Family history of rheumatism is a high-risk group

At present, the etiology of Sjogren's syndrome is not completely clear in modern medicine, and most views believe that the occurrence of the disease is related to genetics, infection, and exposure to chemicals.

Therefore, people with a family history of rheumatism are more likely to develop the disease.

The cause of the disease cannot be fully determined, and naturally there are no specific drugs that can cure it.

The treatment now commonly used is symptomatic treatment, which focuses on improving symptoms.

In patients with severe visceral injury and hyperglobulinemia, hormonal and immunosuppressive therapy is also required.

At present, there is no relevant investigation on the characteristics of the disease region in China, but in terms of the characteristics of the disease, the incidence of the disease in the arid region in the north is higher than that in the humid region in the south, and it is more likely to occur in the dry autumn and winter seasons.

In addition, Sjogren's syndrome patients were significantly more female than male, and the incidence was more common in middle-aged people.

Rheumatology is an ancient discipline. In recent years, the spectrum of rheumatoid diseases has become wider and wider, including rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, systemic lupus erythematosus, psoriatic arthritis, myositis and dermatomyositis, systemic sclerosis and other common rheumatic diseases. There are also newly known diseases such as systemic vasculitis and IGG4-associated disease (a chronic, systemic disease that is closely related to IgG4 lymphocytes).

Many years of clinical experience suggest that if unexplained multi-system disease occurs, often associated with rheumatism, specialized rheumatological examination is recommended.