Gout and Pseudogout are horribly painful. Still, sometimes we can be lax about seeking treatment or sticking to our gout-control regimen, be it medicinal, dietary, use of a CPAP for Apnea, or what have you.
Here is a reminder of why treatment and control measures are so important:
This is an image of a foot where gouty […]
Yesterday, we posted on Dr, Donohue’s assertion that diet is less important than ever in the management of gout, owing to the strong medicines available to us today. These medicines include Colchicine, Allopurinol, Indocin, and perhaps soon Febuxostat among others.
Today, we have the counterpoint to that perspective from another health columnist, Dr. W. Gifford Jones […]
Newspaper health columnist Dr. Paul Donohue, writer of Ask Dr. Donohue has recently written about gout. His information is fairly accurate, but I would make two comments.
A quote:
Now that we have such effective gout medicines, diet takes a back seat in treatment. It cannot be totally ignored, but its importance has diminished from the […]
My name is Kevin Kennedy-Spaien, and I am a writer on health topics. I have had Gout since my mid-twenties. This site is meant as a learning resource for all who suffer from this painful arthritic condition.
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