Problems with eyes may indicate arthritis, writes Express with reference to the data of American doctors.
As specialists note, inflammatory processes affect collagen – the main component of the connective tissue. Scler and cornea, in turn, consist of collagen, so rheumatoid arthritis can manifest itself, in particular, through dry keratitis, also known as “dry eye syndrome”. Signs of this state are the feeling of an extraneous subject in the eye, dryness and fuzzy vision.
previously became known that the harbingers of rheumatoid arthritis is numbness of hands or feet. Also, this condition may be associated with spinal diseases: tumors, osteochondrosis, intervertebral hernias or narrowing of the spinal channel.
Rheumatoid arthritis is a systemic inflammatory disease of the connective tissue with a preferably damage to small joints by the type of erosive-destructive polyarthritis of unclear etiology with a complex autoimmune pathogenesis.
for the first time can manifest itself after severe physical activity, emotional shock, fatigue, in the period of hormonal restructuring, the effects of adverse factors or infections.