Mucous membrane dryness

Introduction Dry eyes, dry nose and mouth, no tears, no saliva, into the water, some female patients vaginal dry, painful abnormalities due to decreased secretion of salivary glands caused by dry mucous membranes. The performance is as follows: the sick population is dry, the speech is not smooth, and the saliva secretion is reduced, and the self-cleaning function of the oral cavity is also reduced. Chewing gum helps the secretion of saliva. Long-term stimulation by external physical or chemical substances, such as mechanical stimulation of long-term dust, air overheating, excessive dryness, etc., may also be related to genetic, endocrine, viral infections, etc., may involve lungs, liver, kidneys, Gastrointestinal, skin, joints and lymph, etc., often secondary to rheumatoid arthritis, nodular arteritis, etc., can also be complicated by chronic active hepatitis, reticuloma and other malignant lymphoma and allergic vasculitis.

Cause

Long-term stimulation by external physical or chemical substances, such as mechanical stimulation of long-term dust, air overheating, excessive dryness, etc., may also be related to genetic, endocrine, viral infections, etc., may involve lungs, liver, kidneys, Gastrointestinal, skin, joints and lymph, etc., often secondary to rheumatoid arthritis, lupus erythematosus, polymyositis, nodular arteritis, etc., and concurrent with chronic active hepatitis, reticuloma and other malignant lymphoma And allergic vasculitis.

an examination

Related inspection

Skin elasticity test of nasal mucosa and nasal secretions

1. Carefully ask the relevant medical history and collect relevant clinical data.

2. Closely check the patient to clearly understand the clinical symptoms of the patient, paying particular attention to the changes in the patient's mucosa.

3, appropriate physical examination of the patient, a preliminary understanding of the morphological changes of the various organs of the patient.

4. Perform relevant equipment examinations on patients and conduct laboratory tests as appropriate.

5, comprehensive consideration of various inspection results, combined with the clinical symptoms of various organ damage, and finally draw a corresponding diagnosis.

Differential diagnosis

1, dry nasal mucosa: mostly caused by allergic rhinitis, the degree of nasal congestion is different, more sudden appearance; nasal sputum is thin; more; often accompanied by nasal itching, sneezing frequently as an embolism.

2, dry syndrome: oral, dry eye and rheumatoid arthritis triad can be diagnosed as dry syndrome, laboratory tests often have body fluids, cellular immune abnormalities, such as erythrocyte sedimentation rate, serum gamma globulin, immunoglobulin G is significantly elevated, and complement is low.

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