RA can result in low energy, especially when the pain gets in the way of sleeping. Long-term inflammation can cause you to feel physically exhausted. RA can also trigger swelling in the affected joints. This stiffness is usually worse in the mornings and can last for 45 minutes or more. You may have difficulty getting out of bed or walking in the morning because of stiff and painful ankles, knees, or feet. In addition to pain, this disease causes stiffness in the affected joints. Some areas of your body may even be painful to the touch. Sometimes it can feel like a sprain or broken bone. If you have RA, joint pain can range from mild to moderate or severe. For example, you’ll feel pain in both left and right wrists, hands, and knees. Symmetric pain in multiple joints is what makes RA different from other types of arthritis. In most cases, the pain occurs on both sides of the body. RA usually appears gradually, affecting small joints first and then spreading to larger joints. Basically, give him a day spa treatment when cleaning him and have him be as relaxed and comfortable as possible.What does RA feel like? Pain in the joints Try putting him on the kitchen counter to wash his hair as lying back on something would relieve tension in his neck, arm and shoulder from his splint/cast.
Dad might want to help out washing and bathing his back and legs but your son might want to take care of his own 'boy' parts and such. Try a garbage bag over the splinted area to keep it dry when he's taking a shower. (I also use it as a make-up primer, believe it or not)Īlso, you might want to use a milder shampoo (like Johnson's Baby) and a sensitive skin soap with no deodorants or perfumes to keep the itching down. I continue to use this under my breasts because it really works to keep rashes and irritations away. It goes on silky and dries within a minute and there's no gunky mess at all. The solution was to clean the area very well, dry it very well, then put an anti-chafing cream (like Monistat or Simply Delicate from AVON) on the areas where skin-on-skin contact happens. Powders DO NOT help!! As a matter of fact, powders contain an ingredient that irritate the skin more and create heat which really doesn't help if there's a rash going on. The treatment for any kind of chafing is to buffer the skin so that skin-on-skin contact doesn't happen. The reason? Because she was sweating where skin touched skin (like under her breasts and armpits or anywhere her cast met skin). Because of her age, they had to put her in a stabilized sling to keep her from moving any part of her arm. My grandmother went through the same thing when she broke a couple of ribs and her arm between the shoulder and elbow.
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