Lifestyle Choices

A number of things can be done to relieve the pain of arthri- tis and rheumatism or to prevent it from becoming worse.

The first thing is always: healthy eating. Enough fresh fruit and vegetables, very few refined carbohydrates such as sugar and white flour, enough oily fish such as herring, mackerel and sardines, and red meat not more than once or twice a week. Look at your plate when you sit down to eat again. Maybe the pain is lying there somewhere and peeping at you, or perhaps the relief.

Take a multivitamin with minerals and amino acids and take extra vitamin B₅ (500 mg per day) and vitamin C (2000 mg per day). Also take extra omega-3 and -6 oils in the form of fish oil and flaxseed oil capsules.

Glucosamine sulphate can help to build up the cartilage again. It is often combined with chondroitin sulphate. Read the packaging carefully. If it says hydrochloride instead of “sulphate”, it may perhaps be less effective for the pain.

Enough rest and relaxation are very important. Extended stress can exhaust your adrenals from all the adrenaline that they have to make. Then the adrenals also do not produce enough of your own natural cortisone. We were created with cortisone to prevent us from getting unnecessary inflammation. If, however, you no longer have enough of it, inflammation can get out of control.

• Most anti-inflammatory medications help with the pain and inflammation of arthritis, but do not stem the progress of the disease. Many people also suffer the side effects of these, for example stomach ulcers and high blood pressure. Nowadays new remedies such as celecoxib and rofecoxib mercifully give relief from joint pain without stomach-ache. People who are allergic to sulphur-type antibiotics however can not use celecoxib.
• If you have inflammation, the anti-inflammatory pills will possibly work. Many people, however, cannot take these because of the effect on, for example, your stomach, or even the aggravation of high blood pressure. Arthritis sufferers are therefore looking all the more to alternative remedies and lifestyle adjustments.
• New plant products hold much promise for the treatment of arthritis. One of them is the extract of wild ginger, which apparently works on the substances that cause inflammation in the joints. It comes in a capsule that you take twice a day.
• Acupuncture and a combination of homeopathic remedies also help some people.
• Electrotherapy is one of the most exciting treatments which apparently will make its mark in the near future. There is a South African product that brings proven relief from the pain and inflammation of arthritis. If you already have such an apparatus and are not satisfied, you may approach the distributors again. They have new information on what settings on the machine work the best.

Then there are still other sources of relief such as warm and cold compresses, splints to keep the joints stable, physiotherapy, special exercises, and sometimes even the knife!

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