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vitamin c as an alternative gout treatment
- 2. • Thhere are some sources stat that taking multivitamin e te supplement pill ls, especially vitamin C is one of the s e ems listed in n ite natural remedi for gout. ies • A few studies o over the past few decades have shown s ositive result t po that Vitamin C can help in reducing the e uric acid level in the blood, only if taken in mega dose. n
- 3. • Goout is a direct result of ele t evated uric ac content in cid the body. Gout treatments, be it natural remedies or e t r synthetic drugs work in two ways to red s o duce the acid vels. One is by restricting t lev y the supply by inhibiting the e deegradation for purine to uric acid. c • Th other way is by improvin the excretio of the acid he ng on thr rough urine and Vitamin C is thought to be an ex xcretory agent instead of an inhibitor of the breaking t do own of purine.
- 4. here is one c • Th complicating and confusing fact about t go out patients is that the ob s bscure fact th hat there are e maany people wwho have hype eruricemia bu have never ut r ex xperience the dreadful g e gout attack while other r pa atients with no ormal or slight high uric acid level do. tly
- 5. • A study did in 2 2005 where gouty participa ants took 500 0 mg of Vitamin C daily for two months. The results g . s showed that Vi itamin C can reduce uric acid level as s muuch as 10 percents on aver rage. • Th rate of re he eduction is larger among those gout g t pa atients who ha ave higher leve of uric acid els d.
- 6. esearches and case studie have show that rapid • Re d es wn changes in uric acid levels can somehow tr riggers a gout t tack. att • Th rapid fluctu his uation of the acid can be b brought about t by many factors such as the consumption of too much y s e n uric acid reducin drug such as allopurinol Taking over ng l. r oses of Vitamin C within a short period of time can do d als cause a rap drop in the gouty acid le so pid e evel.
- 7. ossible explanation for phenomena like this is that a • Po dra astic and sud dden drop in the uric acid lever in the d e blo ood causes th can somehow stir up those 'sleeping' he ura crystals in the joints. ate n • Wh hen these urrate crystals float around the synovial flu in the joint it alerts th immune de uid ts, he etectors which will initiate a series of immmune reactions such as s flammation, sw inf welling and in ntense pain.