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How safe are Arthritis Drugs?

By: Jansa Olga

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With arthritis, health treatment has an air of desperation. Doctors not simply don't recognize how to sort out the problematic but habitually make a hash of things, throwing a load of potentially dangerous drugs at the condition and then prescribing different medications to deal with the side effects caused by the "treatment". Traditional medicine tends to take the view that there is no known cure for arthritis, and so all that it can do with without doubt is to ease your pain.

The most common frontline drug for both "rheumatoid and osteoarthritis" used to be aspired at elevated doses. This has nowadays been nearly replaced by the no steroidal anti-inflammatory medications, or NSAIDs, as trade knows them. In the United States there are at lest fourteen such drugs on the markets, several years ago one of them (ibuprofen) got taken off the list of prescribed medications and was made accessible over the counter. Increasingly doctors now turn to NSAIDs as a first port of call; in 1984, nearly on in seven Americans was treated with one of these drugs, a figure that is nowadays grossly out of date, as they are prescribed for everything from headaches to period pains.

This medications largely work by inhibiting the synthesis of prostaglandins, and therefore suppressing inflammation. The problem is that the medications don't just inhibit the prostaglandin that concerns your joint pain; they roadblock all formation, particularly at such high doses. Since this substance plays a key role in normal "gastrointestinal" function, NSAIDs, not surprisingly, interfere with it. This can result in gastric erosion, peptic-ulcer formation and perforation, major upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage, and inflammation and changes in the permeability of the intestine and lower bowel.

When you commence taking NSAIDs, you multiply by seven times your chances of being hospitalized due to gastrointestinal adverse effects. The elderly, or those with a history of peptic ulcers, are at particular danger. Since NSAIDs reduces pain, for the most part at excessive doses, they also often cover up any indication that something is wrong. NSAIDs can also trigger distorted or diminished vision, Parkinson's disease and hair and fingernail loss; they can also damage the liver and kidneys.

Furthermore using NSAIDs for inflammation and pain, physicians try to treat arthritis with slow-acting antirheumatic drugs (SAARDs). In each situation, treating is a decidedly hit and-miss affair. Specialists do not understand how SAARDs work-if and when they do-but admit they can be extremely toxic and even life threatening. Lack of research into their long-term effects means the patient has to play a game of Russian roulette to find out whether he will develop symptoms from the "cure" that are worse than the condition he is being treated for.

However, if you are a believer in "alternative medicine", you should think about magnetic therapy. Thousands of people worldwide are confirming the anti inflammatory and pain reducing effect of this therapy. You can treat yourself in the comfort of your home, in an airplane or at work with the pocket sized BIO MEDICI device.

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About the author: Olga Jansa PhD. has devoted 25 years of her life studying alternative medicine in particular magnetic pain therapy. You can read more about it at www.magnetictherapycure.com

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