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Get the Best Treatment for Gout
Gout is uncomfortable. It can also be inconveniently painful. If you have gout, it’s going to be hard to cook your daily meals if there is a painful lump on your hand. Walking will also be a pain if one or both of your knees swell. If you...
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Fibromyalgia: What you need to Know
What is Fibromyalgia? Fibromyalgia is a clinical syndrome characterized by chronic, persistent, and widespread musculoskeletal pain without any visible abnormalities in these areas. When do you consider chronic pain? The chronicity depends on each...
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Steroids Linked to Increased Hypertension in RA
Although the adverse effects of systemic glucocorticosteroids (GCs) are well known, their association with hypertension in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) has been unclear. Now, a large population-based study shows that the drugs are linked to a 17%...
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GOUT
Gout is a systemic disease characterized by intensely painful and swollen joints due to an increase in uric acid crystals (monosodium urate) inside the joints. These are mostly seen on the big toe joint (first interphalangeal joint) or other...
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Nutrition and lifestyle tips to help reduce gout flares
Dietary changes to reduce severity and frequency of gout flares Foods to limit or avoid Beer and alcohol Seafood and shellfish Organ meats (tongue, liver, brain, sweet breads and kidney) Turkey Red meat (beef, pork) High sugar...
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Gout and dietary modification
Gout is an inflammatory joint disease that is caused by crystals (of monosodium urate) that settle into the joints. The formation of the crystals happens when patients have high amounts of uric acid in their blood. Once these crystals have...
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