Time To Cure The Gout Treatment

Time To Cure The Gout Treatment

by KeithTaylor Comment Closed
As GoutPal.com passes another birthday milestone, I'm starkly aware that many pages are stuck in the old website format. I've committed myself to moving or upgrading all the old pages as my top priority. This will make it much easier to find the right information, and hopefully help contributors to the gout forum find better answers quicker. Logically, I should start with uric acid, then gout symptoms, gout treatment, gout diet, finishing with gout related and any other stragglers. However, it is clear to me that, except for gout diet, most visitors are seeking the best cure for their gout. Therefore, I'm determined that February will become Gout Treatment month, when I complete the transfer and upgrade of all gout cure, remedy, or relief pages. These will be in the subsections: Avoid Gout By Uric Acid Reduction Treatment For Gout Anti-Inflammatory Gout Cure Gout Remedies For Pain Relief Gout Medicine Natural Gout Cures Natural Gout RemedyGout ReliefRemedies For GoutGout Home Remedies I also plan to integrate the gout cures forum more...
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Biggest Danger Of Gout – Ignorance

by KeithTaylor Comment Closed
Just like me, it seems, the LA Times gets letters from its readers about the danger of gout. It published three letters about gout yesterday, and the depth of ignorance from sufferers, alternative medicine promoters, and qualified medical personnel drives me to despair. One gout sufferer blames beer. Though alcohol can affect kidney performance in some people, and drinking beer can promote dehydration - a sure cause of gout, to hope that simply stopping drinking beer will stop gout is naive in the extreme. He notes that avoiding dehydration and restricting joints can trigger gout attacks. Both these are true, but avoid the main danger of gout. Another reader claims respite from gout pain for a year through black cherry concentrate capsules daily, and indomethacin when required. These may well reduce gout pain, but again, they do nothing to avoid the main danger of gout. The worst story comes from a man who has consulted 4 doctors - 2 of these have had...
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Gout Pain Fix Driven By BS

by KeithTaylor Comment Closed
Maybe it's the gout pain in my wrist that's making me tetchy. Or maybe it's the amount of BS I'm seeing today. New gout research means hope for new gout therapies? More like new gout research reaches new heights of BS. Actually, the research I have seen, is probably of massive interest to those who need to understand how gout pain works. It's just not relevant to us poor gout sufferers. We need better treatment using the therapies already available rather than wasting time and money on inflicting gout on mice. Let me explain (more…)...
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Uric Acid Blood Test Debate

by KeithTaylor Comment Closed
My campaign for better uric acid blood test procedures is taking shape now suspended. I'm driven by recent forum discussions and my own experiences. Clearly, there are some issues with getting blood tests at the right time, and getting the results interpreted correctly. Therefore the early stages of my campaign will focus on preparing proper information to fight the campaign. I need your help whilst I gather my information into easy-to-read campaign material and prepare the campaign website. I need to build a picture of the state of uric acid testing as it stands today, all around the world. I need you to share your uric acid blood test results. To do this, I have prepared a poll and a couple of surveys. Before you submit your information, please take a moment to read my gout poll guidelines that are part of my extended gout discussion guidelines. For completeness, I should also have survey guidelines, but does such a simple form filling exercise...
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Protein And Uric Acid Connection

by KeithTaylor Comment Closed
Yesterday, somebody asked me "What is the protein and uric acid connection?" I can sum it up in two words. Very complex. But you want more than that, don't you? The simplest explanation is that purines from cell metabolism and some foods get broken down to uric acid in the human body. Most other animals produce other enzymes (uricase) that continue to breakdown uric acid further, so that it is easier to excrete. Humans do not have that enzyme because we want to keep some of the uric acid. It neutralizes free oxygen radicals in our body that would otherwise cause extensive cell damage. That is why normal human lifespan is greater than many animals. From that, we can see that the protein and uric acid connection is a simple one: (more…)...
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Is Gout Inherited?

by KeithTaylor Comment Closed
We often wonder, is gout inherited? I'm working on guidelines for inherited gout. We often call this hereditary gout or genetic gout. For the moment, the best factual information is Is Your Gout Hereditary?. This, and similar information form the basis of my Gout Symptoms Guidelines, especially Why do I have Gout?. We can see that gout is often, but not always, inherited. Obviously, you cannot change your parents. But you should understand what hereditary gout means for you. Therefore, note we have three interchangeable terms (hereditary gout, genetic gout, and inherited gout). Then use the search box at the top of the page to search for each of these terms. Or, do a combined search by copying hereditary gout|genetic gout|inherited gout into the search box. Continue reading Is Gout Inherited?...
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Back Pain And Gout

by KeithTaylor Comment Closed
The article about back pain and gout from 9 years ago is still very popular. Today, we see back pain being associated with gout much more than we used to. So, there is much more discussion of back pain from gout, and spinal gout, in the gout forums. Now that the gout forums are moving to a new website, it's a good time to look at the latest discussions. You can see current discussions at back pain with gout and at spinal gout. Better still, start your own discussion to see if your back pain is caused by gout. Original Back Pain and Gout article follows: Is Back Pain Caused By Gout?Your back pain might be spinal gout. A recent study, that I missed from my December 2006 Newsletter, shows that spinal gout is much more common than previously thought. In a study by Bhandaru and others, Prevalence of Spinal Gout, 630 medical records of gout patients were reviewed and 64 selected where CT...
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