2. 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
3. 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
4. In Canadians gout is more common in men From the ages 30 and up.
In women it Is 50
5. • 2%
of men over 30 and
women over 50 get gout.
• This
has grown over the
last 20 years
6. 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
• Drugs
controls gout pain and inflammation
like xanthine oxidase inhibitors,
allpornal,febuxosstat block or limits your Uric acid
production.
7. • 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
Corticosteriods
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 .
