Sex After Herpes - Yes You Can Still Have a Fulfilling Sex Life If You Have Genital Herpes

When you first get diagnosed with herpes, it can feel like the end of the world. You may feel like life as you know it is over, and one of the most common misconceptions about genital herpes is that you'll never have a normal sex life again. Well, I'm here to tell you that simply isn't true. With a few precautions and a lot of common sense, you'll find that you can have sex after herpes, and a varied and fulfilling sex life at that. The first thing you have to realise is things are going to be a bit different from now on, and you are probably going to have to be a bit more careful than you were in the past. The first thing to know is you'll absolutely need to avoid penetrative sex if you or your partner is currently experiencing a herpes outbreak on your genitals. This is the main unfortunate...

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What Kind of Gout Medicine Can Relieve Gout Pain?

Gout pain can be very debilitating and can often restrict your movement. How do you get rid of this pain or what kind of gout medicine should you take to get some relief? Here is a list of gout medicines to take so that you can get relief from gout pain. A popular gout medicine used to treat gout patients is colchicines, this medicine works by restricting the function of white blood cells, they can't move from one site to another. The patient is recommended 0.6 mg tablet every two hours till the pain subsides. Stop the medicine if you start feeling nauseous or have diarrhea. This medicine also functions as a prophylactic drug, in other words it acts as a preventive medicine. During the initial six months of treatment when the medicine will work to reduce the uric acid level in blood, the...

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Eliminating Gout Forever

Gout is a type of arthritis that is characterized by sudden burning pain, stiffness and swelling in a joint, often the big toe. The disease is hallmarked by elevated levels of uric acid in the bloodstream, caused by deposits of monosodium urate crystals which accumulate in the joints. It is normal for some uric acid to be present in the blood stream because the body is continually breaking down cells and forming new ones. The risk of gout is higher if the individual is overweight, drinks alcohol or eats food high in purines consistently. Familiar foods such as fish or meats can be high in purines and are precursors of uric acid. Purines are the colorless crystals which metabolize into uric acid, and when the kidneys cannot eliminate enough in the urine, the uric acid level becomes abnormally...

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Value of Inflammation Marker in Patients with Intercritical Gout Arthritis

Writer : Endy Adnan (supervised by Edu S Tehupeiory) Background. Intercritical gout arthritis is an acute gout in intermittent period, caused by inflammation process neither with tofus. Inflammation is a complex mechanism among pathogenic agents, parenchymal cell, tissue and blood vessels either with plasma or blood cellular. Inflammation induced by uric crystal in the joint is a patomechanismin gout arthritis and than activated and release celluler, humoral or complement mediators. The aim of this study to investigatigate the value of leucocyte, ESR, CRP, C3 components and C4 components in intercritical gout arthritis. Subject and Method. This is an observational study with case control approach conducted in 20 subjects with intercritical gout arthritis (case) and 20 with asymptomatic hyperuricemia...

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Association Between C-Reactive Protein Level and Components of the Metabolic Syndrome

Writer : Daniel Josten (supervised by John M.F. Adam) Association between C-reactive protein, a sensitive marker for inlammation, and the development of atherosclerosis disease had been observed in experimental and epidemological studies. Interest in CRP was increased along with problem of metabolic syndrome because basically all components of metabolic syndrome were inflammation process. In Indonesia, the same study was so limited, eventhough according to WHO prevelance of obesity was increased in developing countries so do in developed countries wich will increase the metabolic syndrome population. The aim of this study is to know association between CRP level and components of metabolic syndrome. We studied 138 apparently health subjects aged 35-65 years old whoparticipated in the East...

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The Relation Between Components of Metabolic Syndrome with Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor-1

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