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GOUTGOUT
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What is a Gout
• Gout is pain and swelling in either one or more joints.
• It's a type of arthritis but it is not like the common arthritis.
• You get gout when your Uric acid witch is in your blood gets built up.
• With enought build up of Uric acid tiny-grit like crystal form at the joints where it causes irrational in the tissues causing the gout.
• However anyone can get gout, a person with low Uric acid can still get a gout it's just that more Uric acid you have the more of a chance of getting a gout.
Risk factors
• Certain diseases or other conditions make your chance for gout higher,ex.high blood pressure ,diabetes
• Certain medicine like a low dose of aspirin, or people who have gonethrough a Organelle transplant that take anti-rejection drugs.
• More common in men who are the ages of 40-50
In Canadians gout is more common in men From the ages 30 and up.In women it Is 50
• 2% of men over 30 and women over 50 get gout.
• This has grown over the last 20 years
Medical Treaments
• Drugs help treat acute attacks, prevent future attacks and reduce gout risks.
• No steroidal anti-flammentry drugs, high dose for acute attacks and lower dose for future attacks .NAIDSs
• Colchicine is a pain reliever
• Corticosteroids controls gout pain and inflammation
• Drugs like xanthine oxidase inhibitors, allpornal,febuxosstat block or limits your Uric acid production.
Corticosteriods
• Comes in pill form or either be injected into the joint.the injection can be made at the same time you do a joint fluid test wich the doctor withdraws fluids.
• Side effect from this medicine is that the bone start to thin, makes your would healing slower ,reduces your ability to fight infections, a way a doctor controls these by giving low doses, and give steroids for a short time .
• This method is only used when NSAIDs don't work
• mayoclinic.com
• patient.co.uk
• CDC.gov/arthritis/basics/gout.htm
• alive.com
• Advancedhealthchoices.com