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Krystexxa, the intravenous uric acid lowering developed as pegloticase, has been around a few months now.

At least one patient, or rather his wife, has reported good initial results in the gout forum, and has promised to keep us updated with progress. Any new treatment is always interesting, and people want to know more about it.

The scientists get to have their say in the professional publications, but much more important, is the way treatments affect gout sufferers. Now, gout patients have a chance to tell their story.

A leading health magazine is looking for Krystexxa patients to interview. Please see the details at that link, and share your story.

Of course, I would be delighted if you could also share your experiences about Krystexxa, or any other gout treatment in the gout treatment forum.

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This page about Baking Soda For Gout was first published before 2008. I am re-publishing it here, despite the limited appeal for gout sufferers.

Why limited appeal? As I noted in the original article, baking soda tends to raise blood pressure. There is a high occurrence of high blood pressure amongst gout sufferers, so many simply cannot contemplate it.

Baking soda for gout sufferers is most useful as a method for dissolving or preventing kidney stones, but you must consult your doctor about this.

To understand why this works you need to consider the causes of gout.
In the first place, uric acid levels build up to a level that cannot be held in the blood.
Crystallization occurs and uric acid salts are deposited in the joints.
There is no specific level when this happens and some people can have high levels of uric acid (hyperuricemia) without developing gout.
Therefore, you should not simply focus on uric acid levels, but also on other factors.
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Guest writer Bob Coburn, creator of PURIXA gout cure, explains how a simple, cheap, effective gout remedy can boost most gout treatments.

This increase of uric acid in your system will encourage the formation of tiny urate crystals. Then the crystals usually start to accumulate mainly around joints and eventually cause a reaction with our immune system. This reaction with the immune system triggers sudden attacks of pain and inflammation at the affected area. In patients at risk of developing gout, certain conditions can precipitate acute attacks of gout. These conditions include dehydration, excessive eating of food high in purines and heavy alcohol intake.

One way of boosting the effects of any gout treatment is to drink a lot of water. This helps in flushing out the excess uric acid from the body.
There are several advantages of drinking water along with taking your gout cure:
• Helps in flushing out uric acid and other toxins.
• Helps in prevention of kidney stones.
• Helps boost metabolism rate for weight loss (excess weight may be a factor for gout).
• Helps in preventing more gout attacks.

When you don’t drink enough water, your body gets dehydrated. Dehydration may lead to other ailments like improper kidney functioning. When kidneys do not function properly it might lead to formation of kidney stones, kidney infection and cause uric acid build-up. As you already know, excess uric acid is the main culprit behind gout.

Dehydration does not result just from not drinking enough water. Your body can get dehydrated if you consume drinks like coffee, alcohol or carbonated drinks very frequently. So for gout prevention and treatment, the first step you need to take is to reduce the intake of these drinks and increase the consumption of water. Sometimes it can be hard to motivate yourself to drink a lot of water every day. In such cases you can drink fruit or vegetable juices. But it is best to stay with water as much as possible.

PURIXA™ (www.purixa.com) is one gout cure that benefits from a good supply of water. It’s recommended that you drink 8 oz of water, six to eight times a day as well as your daily dosage of PURIXA. Try mixing PURIXA with orange or sour cherry juice. Also add a slice of lemon in water with PURIXA. Mixing PURIXA with milk is another great way to take PURIXA.

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My first guest writer, Bob Coburn, the inventor of PURIXA, continues his series about gout cures from the world of natural products. See Natural Xanthine Oxidase Inhibitors for the first installment.

For now, we will focus on natural uricosuric agents as most gout sufferers are “under-excreters” of uric acid. There are several natural agents that have proven to be effective uricosuric agents.  Let’s examine some of the more common and potent agents available in natural gout remedies.
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I am pleased to introduce my first guest writer, Bob Coburn, the inventor of PURIXA, who writes about gout cures from the world of natural products that help gout sufferers.

Natural xanthine Oxidase inhibitors can be part of the gout treatment regimen. There are two very potent and safe agents that have XOI effects, green tea leaf extract and Resveratrol from Japanese Knotweed root.
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This is the second of my gout myth articles, designed to clarify “What Is Gout?” by providing the facts about what it is not.

In the first article, I explained how the correct treatment for gout is to reduce uric acid, but gout is not a disease that can be treated by a standard dose. Allopurinol is an extremely common and inexpensive way to lower uric acid. Unfortunately, there is a very common myth that 300mg allopurinol will bring gout under control.

Whilst 300mg may be effective in many cases, it is not effective for all gout patients, and in rare, but extreme, cases it may be dangerous.

What Is Gout Treatment?

Though pain relief is important, the only way to permanently fix gout is to lower uric acid until all uric acid deposits have been dissolved. There are many ways to lower uric acid, including several types of drug, alternative treatments, and diet. Combinations are often effective, so gout diet improvements with low dose gout medications might suit you. It is best to discuss your options with your doctor as soon as you are diagnosed with gout.

Uric acid monitoring is vital, and you must get this down to 5mg/dL (0.30mmol/L) as soon as you can. As uric acid crystals dissolve faster at lower uric acid concentration, it is a good idea to aim as low as possible for around six to twelve months. The length of time will vary according to how long you have had gout, and it’s severity. Once you have gone six months without a gout flare, you can slowly relax your uric acid lowering treatment until you maintain 5mg/dL (0.30mmol/L) for the rest of your life. In many cases, treatment can be relaxed completely for a few months, but you should always keep checking uric acid levels.
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I am running a series of myth articles to try to clarify “What Is Gout?”

Gout is really quite simple – an immune reaction to invading uric acid crystals. But many people fail to understand the immune system part of that definition. Also, many people build on the basic misunderstandings, and the Internet has fueled a host of myths about gout.

Today I will look at the pain measurement myth – gout patients (and some doctors) who measure the success of gout treatment solely by the reduction or absence of pain.

What Is Gout Pain?

Pain control is important. The intense pain of gout is hard to bear and seriously affects our mobility and enjoyment of life. It creates personal fears of returning pain that cause us to modify our behavior and to become anxious. We must control gout pain, but that is only a short term measure. To cure gout properly we must lower uric acid.

There are many more myths about uric acid levels, and I will cover these in later articles in this series. For now, I will simply say that for uric acid lowering treatment to be effective, it must reduce the concentration of uric acid in our blood low enough to cause all existing uric acid crystals to dissolve.

When I learned that allopurinol and other uric acid lowering treatments can cause gout attacks, I was shocked and confused. How can a treatment that is designed to help gout sufferers cause more pain? When you understand that, you understand what gout is, and you understand why you can never judge any gout treatment, including gout diet improvements, simply on the basis of gout pain.
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