Getting Rid of Gout :
A Guide to Management and Prevention
by B. T. Emmerson, Bruce Emmer
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Bryan Emmerson is a Professor of Medicine at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane and a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. An authority on arthritis, he is the author of many books and articles.
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Gout is now the most treatable and preventable type of arthritis, yet many people still suffer repeated attacks, and the condition remains surrounded by myths and misunderstanding. In this practical and readable book Bryan Emmerson, an expert in the field, provides a completebackgroud to an understanding of gout, which he argues is central to its prevention and treatment. Withe the aid of cartoons and diagrams, he traces the condition from Hippocrates to the present, covering every aspect of gout likely to concern sufferers, from biology to management and prevention. All the popular fallacies about the nature and causes of gout are examined scientifically, but in a way that lay readers will find understandable and sympathetic. "Getting rid of Gout" offers sensible advice on one of the most baffling of medical conditions.
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Table of Contents
- Gout from the earliest times
- What is gout? Acute, recurrent and chronic gout
- Urate (or uric acid) in the body
- Hyperuricaemia
- What is hyperuricaemia?
- Urate crystal formation
- Gout and the kidney
- Gout and the blood vessels
- How to manage your gout
- Medication used to treat an acute attack of gout
- Preventing gout by correcting hyperuricaemia
- Bringing your urate concentrations down to normal
- Questions and answers about gout
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Read the book Reviews Below
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GREAT BOOK - NEW GOUT SUFFERS MUST READ!, July 5, 2001
Reviewer: from Tulsa, OK United States
If you have gout then READ THIS BOOK ASAP - This is the only comprehensive guide to GOUT I could locate. Excellent reference if you want to understand all aspects and possible causes. I ask lots of questions and this book answered 99 percent of my concerns. Buy your doctor one also - I am new to this condition but now have a definitive plan of action to determine the cause and cure it - not just treat the symptoms. DR. Emmerson if you read these THANK YOU! My TOE wishes I would have found this book 9 months ago.
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Reviewer: A reader from Largo, FL USA
This was the first book about gout I read; my doctor found and ordered it for me 2 years ago. It goes over many of the common gout medicines thoroughly, telling their usefull properties and detailing their potentially bad side-effects. This helped me with informed choices. The photographs of gouty joints were sobering. One little tip, mentioned only once in this book, has been the most useful for me, for jumping on an oncoming gout attack before it becomes acute, and that is to take bicarbonate of soda, either as the plain soda in water, or in Alka-aid, or Alka-seltzer tablet forms. It really works for me, in limiting the number of attacks and minimizing them if they do slip by. It took a number of readings of the book for me to find and focus on this idea. I have also made a list of my now-known personal gout-triggering foods, using the information from this book. Wish there were no such thing as gout, but I'm grateful to doctors and writers who work to help us through it. |
Fast,easy read with concise information on treatments., August 23, 1998
Reviewer: A reader from tacoma wa.
This book had the most complete information on gout causes and treatment that i have read to date. Goes over all the do's and don'ts of diet and medication. gives you more knowledge that the family doctor. |
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