Gout Support Group
Gout is a form of arthritis caused by the accumulation of uric acid crystals in joints. It is an intensely painful disease, which in most cases affects only one joint (monoarthritis), most commonly the big toe. The classic picture is of excruciating and sudden pain, swelling, redness, warmness and stiffness in the joint. Low-grade fever may also be present.
Hello all..this is my understanding..do not now whether its correct or not just posting here if in case it will be useful for anyone.
my mom was recently diagnosed withgout..we did not know earlier and when got tested..we understand that she has gout and right now she is getting slowly better..with medicines..very slow. earlier..she was unable to even go to bathroom and now started steps with the walker.
we also realized something..just a couple of months back..she started to eat almonds and pistachios..but in the website..many posts say that nuts do not affect gout at all..but we feel that probably pistacios caused gout so now she stopped pistachios completely and she feeling little little better with medcines. So I cannot eactly say whether the stopping of pistachios helped or not.
but anyone eating pistachios and feeling ggout attacks..please if possible stop these and see how u feel..and if u feel better..what more can u ask for.
sorry for my long message. my sister is caring for my mom and its so sad and painful to watch our loved ones go thro.
my prayers to everyone hope u all feel better too.
Regards.
my mom was recently diagnosed withgout..we did not know earlier and when got tested..we understand that she has gout and right now she is getting slowly better..with medicines..very slow. earlier..she was unable to even go to bathroom and now started steps with the walker.
we also realized something..just a couple of months back..she started to eat almonds and pistachios..but in the website..many posts say that nuts do not affect gout at all..but we feel that probably pistacios caused gout so now she stopped pistachios completely and she feeling little little better with medcines. So I cannot eactly say whether the stopping of pistachios helped or not.
but anyone eating pistachios and feeling ggout attacks..please if possible stop these and see how u feel..and if u feel better..what more can u ask for.
sorry for my long message. my sister is caring for my mom and its so sad and painful to watch our loved ones go thro.
my prayers to everyone hope u all feel better too.
Regards.
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My 6mo twin DD's are EBF and just started rice cereal on the first. Everything has been going fine except this morning one of them had a diaper rash (lots of redness around her anus). I read this as one of the signs of an allergy. BUT I did just buy a different brand diaper yesterday (which they have used randomly before w/no issues). Do you think its the cereal or the diaper? Im ready to start...
Most gout attacks can be stopped in a few minutes, a few hours, or a few days , by having a shot of steroids, e.g.. methylprednisolone, 80 mg given in muscle. This can be done at an Emergency or at her doctor's office.
The second slower method is to take an EFFECTIVE dosage of an NSAID. More detailed info can be found by Googling using key phrase "Emergency Gout Treatments".
After the attack has subsided, keep taking a low dose NSAID for prophylaxis. Then a few week later, start taking a uric acid (UA) lowering drug such as Allopurinol to lower her UA store in the body, while keep taking prophylactic NSAID to prevent gout attacks.
Find a good rheumatologist and let him/her take care of the problem.
Wish your mom get well soon.
I ate pistachios again and had another flare up.
In my case I’m pretty sure that there is a major correlation between my gout and consuming pistachios.
I’m in pain now which is why I went searching the web for info and cures.