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by Kathy Nelson

After a few years of not looking after your body, eating lots of rich meats and drinking to much beer, there is a good chance that your body will have accumulated enough uric acid crystals for your first experience of gout.

If you have any of the following symptoms then there is a good chance you have gout:-

1. The most common form of gout starts as what is known as podagra usually. This refers to pain in the big toe joint when it is inflamed from the build up of uric acid.

2. Nighttime can often be the first time you notice the intent pain that gout can give you from even the light pressure of a bed sheet.

3. Many people who suffer from gout find that when an attack occurs the discomfort that they feel comes on very rapidly and may last for a few hours during the night. But then the discomfort that they are feeling will slowly begin to ease once more over the following 2 to 7 days.

4. When the gout attack actually begins to subside then the person finds that the skin around the joint, which is affected, may feel itchy and starts to peel.

Like any illness, gout affects different people in different ways. Some people will recognize all the symptoms mentioned here while others won’t recognize any of them, you may only get pain in your elbows for example and none in the big toe joint which we mentioned.

While it is usually your big toe joint that suffers the effects of gout , which of course makes walking very painful, you can also get it in any joint in your body. This includes your fingers, elbows, ankles and even your wrists.

In a large number of cases a person often suffers from gout symptoms following an illness or after undergoing surgery and these attacks although painful are short lived. However for those who suffer from chronic gout the attacks are far less painful and in some cases may be diagnosed incorrectly. In some cases especially in older people the gout can actually be confused as being some form or arthritis instead. In fact a chronic gout sufferer is unlikely to suffer from the symptoms very closely associated with acute gout.

It is important however that should a person start to suffer from any of the gout symptoms we have mentioned above they should seek medical advice as soon as possible. Although the pain caused by an attack normally relieves itself a few days after the attack taking the right kind of medication can help to prevent the chance of such attacks occurring again.

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How do you know if you are dealing with a a gout symptom or just aches and pains? If your toes ache we rarely normally think of gout as a possible cause.

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2. on 28 Mar 2009 at 9:52 am2updataholic

   Don’t wanna get outta bed. But gotta go learn how to teach Hondurans public health.

3. on 29 Mar 2009 at 2:49 pm3finestcuts

   salman rushdi wrote this piece in REVIEW in March 28-29 issue…On taking liberties with literature…in this article on adaptation he writes about slumdog too…just read it.

   So what of the adaptations in last month’s Oscars?
   What can one say about Slumdog Millionaire, adapted from the novel Q&A by the Indian diplomat Vikas Swarup and directed by Danny Boyle and Loveleen Tandan, which won eight Oscars including Best Picture? A feelgood movie about the dreadful Bombay slums, an opulently photographed movie about extreme poverty, a romantic, Bollywoodised look at the harsh, unromantic underbelly of India — well — it feels good, right? It’s probably pointless to go up against such a popular film, but let me try.
   The problems begin with the work being adapted. Swarup’s novel is a corny potboiler, with a plot that defies belief: a boy from the slums somehow manages to get on to the hit Indian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire and answers all his questions correctly because the random accidents of his life have, in a series of outrageous coincidences, given him the information he needs, and are conveniently asked in the order that allows his flashbacks to occur in chronological sequence. This is a patently ridiculous conceit, the kind of fantasy writing that gives fantasy writing a bad name. It is a plot device faithfully preserved by the film-makers, and lies at the heart of the weirdly renamed Slumdog Millionaire. As a result the film, too, beggars belief.
   The movie piles impossibility on impossibility, exceeding even the crassness of the book. Two boys from the Bombay slums, who grow up speaking Hindi and Marathi, flee a fire and suddenly acquire perfect English, good enough to talk to and hoodwink western tourists. Oh, and when they run away from the burning slum they demonstrate extraordinary fitness, because the next thing you know they are at the Taj Mahal, which is in Agra, hundreds of miles away. A moment later they are back in Bombay and the older boy has miraculously acquired a gun, and bullets, and the skill and courage to use both. How did he get a gun? It is never explained. India is not the United States, and consequently it isn’t easy for anyone there to acquire a weapon, unless they are already in one of the criminal mafias, and at this point in the story that is not the case. To watch your home town’s story being told in this comically absurd, tawdry fashion is, finally, to grow annoyed. Such is the sentimentality of Slumdog Millionaire that were its setting somewhere more familiar to western audiences, it would be recognised as the banal fluff it is.
   It used to be the case that western movies about India were about blonde women arriving there to find, almost at once, a maharajah to fall in love with, the supply of such maharajahs being apparently endless and specially provided for English or American blondes; or they were about European women accusing non-maharajah Indians of rape, perhaps because they were so indignant at having being approached by a non-maharajah; or they were about dashing white men galloping about the colonies firing pistols and unsheathing sabres, to varying effect. Now that sort of exoticism has lost its appeal; people want, instead, enough grit and violence to convince themselves that what they are seeing is authentic; but it’s still tourism. If the earlier films were raj tourism, maharajah-tourism, then we, today, have slum tourism instead. In an interview conducted at the Telluride film festival last autumn, Boyle, when asked why he had chosen a project so different from his usual material, answered that he had never been to India and knew nothing about it, so he thought this project was a great opportunity. Listening to him, I imagined an Indian film director making a movie about New York low-life and saying that he had done so because he knew nothing about New York and had indeed never been there. He would have been torn limb from limb by critical opinion. But for a first world director to say that about the third world is considered praiseworthy, an indication of his artistic daring. The double standards of post-colonial attitudes have not yet wholly faded away.

4. on 05 Apr 2009 at 8:27 pm4lesjonescom

   Why not a down payment for primary care, and problems with the medical home?

5. on 07 Apr 2009 at 4:50 am5RenRen

   A. Public health looks at everyone from all over. We (I'm an epidemiologist) are concerned with things that may be coming down the pike and hit all of us (like bird flu, etc.). Community health mostly involves doctors, nurses, and other health care professionals that tailor interventions to a particular community's needs, and they generally don't plan out for "the bigger picture", although they do a heck a job in their locales, since they know it better.

6. on 08 Apr 2009 at 7:09 pm6Snodly

   Faridabad News A ray of hope for patients suffering from Gout and Arthritis!: Dr Vishwendra Kumar ..

7. on 09 Apr 2009 at 12:51 am7dedum

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   Read about common zoonoses at

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