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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