Common pain triggers for millions of arthritis sufferers

Two everyday fruits named as common pain triggers for millions of arthritis sufferers

Story by Antony Thrower

 • 8mo • 2 min read

Millions of people suffer from arthritis© Getty Images/Science Photo Library RF

Millions of people living with the pain of arthritis in the UK have been warned of two common fruits which can worsen life with the condition.

The condition can cause pain, swelling and inflammation, as well as mobility issues for sufferers. Although there is no cure yet for arthritis there are ways to manage the symptoms. Like many health conditions, diet can play a part in easing or worsening the condition and health body the Physicians Committee has warned against certain foods, which can act as “pain triggers”. Among those listed as “common pain triggers” are common apples and tomatoes.

Express.co.uk reported the report saying: “While genetic factors are important, studies show that lifestyle factors, including diet, play a role. If you have rheumatoid arthritis, a diet change could help you, and perhaps even eliminate your pain entirely. In research studies, many people who cut out certain trigger foods find that their pain improves or goes away. When those foods are gone, so is the inflammation. A survey of more than 1,000 arthritis patients revealed that red meat, sugar, fat, salt, caffeine, and nightshade plants most commonly worsen the condition.”

Both apples and tomatoes contain solanine, a glycoalkaloid poison mainly found in species of the nightshade family. One study, published in the Arab Journal of Nuclear Sciences and Applications in 2013, considered the link between solanine and arthritis.

It reads: “Solanine is a toxic compound produced in nightshades family such as potato, tomato and eggplant when exposed to light. The current study was carried out on 18 female postmenopausal albino rats to investigate the effect of solanine on the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis. The data of the present study showed that old age and postmenopausal suffering from arthritis and joint swelling must eliminate or avoid the nightshades plants to alleviate the joint pain and also decrease the destruction of the tissues.”

Meanwhile, last month researchers found medication controlling blood sugar levels in type 2 diabetes can also help patients with certain autoimmune diseases . The drug, Canagliflozin, also targets T-cells – a type of white blood cell that usually helps us fight infections. These cells are known to mistakenly attack healthy tissues in patients with autoimmune diseases, so using Canagliflozin to inhibit them could aid the more than 400,000 people in the UK with rheumatoid arthritis and the 50,000 living with lupus.

Two everyday fruits named as common pain triggers for millions of arthritis sufferers (msn.com)

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Salt - Condiment Of Death?

 Mar 11, 2013

Carl Lowe

Every fast food restaurant pours it into their nuggets, chips and fries. Snack foods overflow with it. And now researchers think it’s killing us with an epidemic of autoimmune diseases like arthritis, multiple sclerosis, lupus, diabetes and thyroid dysfunction.

According to a study at Yale and Harvard, our danger comes from an overabundance of salt hidden in our processed food.

They found that adding salt to the diet of laboratory animals induced production of a type of T cell previously associated with autoimmune diseases and that animals on salt diets developed a more severe form of multiple sclerosis called experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis.

The research expands the understanding of how one type of immune cell, the T helper 17 or Th17 cell, develops, and how its growth influences the development of other kinds of immune cells.

“The question we wanted to pursue was: How does this highly pathogenic, pro-inflammatory T cell develop?” says researcher Vijay Kuchroo. “Once we have a more nuanced understanding of the development of the pathogenic Th17 cells, we may be able to pursue ways to regulate them or their function.”

“Humans were genetically selected for conditions in sub-Saharan Africa, where there was no salt,” adds researcher David Hafler. “Today, Western diets all have high salt content and that has led to increase in hypertension and perhaps autoimmune disease as well.”

Source:  Condiment Of Death?