WHY ARTHRITIS DEFIES DRUGS BY TUNDE FABUNMI
Those that contend with arthritis rarely get relief from conventional treatment. Rather, they live with the crippling pains of this degenerative disease until it wears them out emotionally and mentally. Worse still, orthodox treatment for arthritis impoverishes the victims and cause life threatening complications. In other words, tackling arthritis with synthetic drugs is tantamount 2 chasing shadow and self destruction. Why and how? Conventional treatment protocol address the symptoms of arthritis rather than it root causes. Yet, no disease can be healed by merely treating it symptoms.In effect, Orthodox medical approach makes arthritis nd other degenerative disease incurable. For instance, pain relieving drugs of varying potency are commonly prescribed for arthritis by their doctors. But despite daily use of pain killers, arthritis pain persists even in greater intensity bcos pain is not arthritis. Pain is just one of the symptoms of systemic dysfunction causing arthritis. Arthritis defies pain medications because they don’t address it causes. Besides, pain killers also damage the cartilage in the case of osteoarthritis and cause other fatal complications including liver and kidney damage and bleeding in the stomach.The key ingredient in all pain relieving drugs is called acetaminophen which many studies have linked to increasing cases of poisoning and liver damage. A team of researchers led by Dr Anne Larson at the university of Washington medical centre in Seattle tracked the 662 consecutive patients who showed up with acute liver failure at 23 transplant centres across USA from 1998 to 2003, acetaminophen poisoning was to blame in nearly half the patients with the proportion of cases linked to the drugs rose to 51% in 2003 from 28% in 1998.By taking pain killers daily, arthritis patients need increasing dosage 2 achieve the same level of pain relief. Consequently, the body is being exposed to overdose of acetaminophen which the liver may handle initially, only to suddenly crash months later. Also, daily use of pain killers often escalate to full blown addiction with grave consequences on the brain.Even here in Nigeria, there have been cases of kidney damage arising from chronic use of pain killers. For instance, a Lagos based woman got her kidney damaged by drugs taken 2 relieve the pains on her knees. Following this complication, doctors shifted attention to kidney dialysis rather than arthritis which was the primary cause of her problem. She did not only lose the battle to free herself from painful knee joint, she also lost her life due 2 kidney failure.Inflammation is another symptom of arthritis for which doctors prescribe aspirin, corticosteroid therapy and non-steroid anti inflammatory drugs. While arthritis has neva succumbed to those drugs, they also cause many fatal complications. Aspirin and other anti inflammatory drugs destroy the lining of the stomach, cause bleeding and harm the kidney. The use of aspirin can also interact with viral infections which may be involved in some arthritic disorder to cause serious damage to the brain , liver and other vital organs in the body.In some cases, surgery is used 2 tackle arthritis especially inform of knee or hip replacement operation. Besides being palliative as drugs, joint or hip replacement surgery is expensive and often compound arthritis for many victims leading to inability to walk and ultimately premature death. In effect, treating arthritis with drugs with drugs and surgery causes misery, financial burden and premature death. The ideal path to arrest and reverse arthritis is to redress the systemic dysfunctions and bad dietary habits that trigger this crippling disease.Dr Ibrahim Osayemi
Those that contend with arthritis rarely get relief from conventional treatment. Rather, they live with the crippling pains of this degenerative disease until it wears them out emotionally and mentally. Worse still, orthodox treatment for arthritis impoverishes the victims and cause life threatening complications. In other words, tackling arthritis with synthetic drugs is tantamount 2 chasing shadow and self destruction. Why and how? Conventional treatment protocol address the symptoms of arthritis rather than it root causes. Yet, no disease can be healed by merely treating it symptoms.In effect, Orthodox medical approach makes arthritis nd other degenerative disease incurable. For instance, pain relieving drugs of varying potency are commonly prescribed for arthritis by their doctors. But despite daily use of pain killers, arthritis pain persists even in greater intensity bcos pain is not arthritis. Pain is just one of the symptoms of systemic dysfunction causing arthritis. Arthritis defies pain medications because they don’t address it causes. Besides, pain killers also damage the cartilage in the case of osteoarthritis and cause other fatal complications including liver and kidney damage and bleeding in the stomach.The key ingredient in all pain relieving drugs is called acetaminophen which many studies have linked to increasing cases of poisoning and liver damage. A team of researchers led by Dr Anne Larson at the university of Washington medical centre in Seattle tracked the 662 consecutive patients who showed up with acute liver failure at 23 transplant centres across USA from 1998 to 2003, acetaminophen poisoning was to blame in nearly half the patients with the proportion of cases linked to the drugs rose to 51% in 2003 from 28% in 1998.By taking pain killers daily, arthritis patients need increasing dosage 2 achieve the same level of pain relief. Consequently, the body is being exposed to overdose of acetaminophen which the liver may handle initially, only to suddenly crash months later. Also, daily use of pain killers often escalate to full blown addiction with grave consequences on the brain.Even here in Nigeria, there have been cases of kidney damage arising from chronic use of pain killers. For instance, a Lagos based woman got her kidney damaged by drugs taken 2 relieve the pains on her knees. Following this complication, doctors shifted attention to kidney dialysis rather than arthritis which was the primary cause of her problem. She did not only lose the battle to free herself from painful knee joint, she also lost her life due 2 kidney failure.Inflammation is another symptom of arthritis for which doctors prescribe aspirin, corticosteroid therapy and non-steroid anti inflammatory drugs. While arthritis has neva succumbed to those drugs, they also cause many fatal complications. Aspirin and other anti inflammatory drugs destroy the lining of the stomach, cause bleeding and harm the kidney. The use of aspirin can also interact with viral infections which may be involved in some arthritic disorder to cause serious damage to the brain , liver and other vital organs in the body.In some cases, surgery is used 2 tackle arthritis especially inform of knee or hip replacement operation. Besides being palliative as drugs, joint or hip replacement surgery is expensive and often compound arthritis for many victims leading to inability to walk and ultimately premature death. In effect, treating arthritis with drugs with drugs and surgery causes misery, financial burden and premature death. The ideal path to arrest and reverse arthritis is to redress the systemic dysfunctions and bad dietary habits that trigger this crippling disease.
Fabunmi is an internationally known Apitherapist and a tradomedical doctor. He is the founder of Bee Conservation Project.
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