How will you 'cure' the rheumatic disorders or rheumatism?

Answer 1

May times you get the patient of so called rheumatism in your general clinical practice. Patient has got nonspecific joint pains and morning joint stiffness. ESR is raised from mild to moderate degree. Such rheumatism is attributed to infected focus in the body some where. There is probably nothing like what you call as autoimmune diseases. There is no reason as to why the immunity will attack the own body proteins. There has to be some or other chronic infection that leads to immunological response. It is this antibody that attack your own body protein. So there has to be the infections in which the amino acid sequence is same as your body protein and at the same time the amino acid sequence is different at places. This difference in the sequence of amino acids that stimulates the production of the antibody. This antibody in turn attack the similar looking body protein. Thus giving rise to so called autoimmune disease. Your knowledge of Microbiology is very elementary. It takes some knowledge to know that you are ignorant. So coming to the point. You know one disease called as rheumatic fever and Arthritis. It is caused by beta hemolytic streptococci. Here you get the bacterial infection that is fallowed by immunological response. Unless you treat the infection, the disease can not be cured.

I have cured hundreds such patients in my clinical practice. You have to search for the focus of chronic infection. Almost always you can find out the carries tooth, one or more. The dentist insists on root canal treatment for this 'minor' problem. I tend to insist on getting the infected tooth removed. For even if the infection remains there to the minute degree also, then the disease will not get cured. It should be noted than even a single bacteria is capable of challenging your immune system. Once you get the infected tooth removed, the patient becomes alright after few days. There can be other regions in your body where there can be infected focus is there. Females are anatomically prone to chronic pelvic inflammatory disease. Specially after the age of 35 years. Bacteria from the outside are commonly spilled in the peritoneal cavity, many times after sexual intercourse. Clinically there is mild tenderness in the lower abdomen. White discharge may or may not be there. There is usually secondary dysmenorrhoea. ( Ladies are very much used to these symptoms and may take it as 'normal' part of their life.) The rheumatism may fallow very commonly through post menopausal period also. Males can have chronic prostate infection. There is tenderness over the prostate gland in per anal palpation. This chronic prostate infection can lead very well to prostate cancer in future. I myself had ingrowing toe nails in late nineteen nineties. I developed joint pains and stiffness. One fine morning it was not possible to walk to the wash room. Then both the toe nails are removed by operation and joint pains and stiffness disappeared. One patient had rash and severe joint pains. VDRL test was found to be positive. This patient responded to oral penicillin V tablet 250 mg 2 TID for three weeks. Other infected focuses should be sought and get treated. There may in infected sebaceous cyst. Though I never treated any one such patient of rheumatism. For chronic pelvic pelvic inflammation and chronic prostatitis, I prefer to give tablet Azithromycin one gram stat fallowed by 500 mg BID for two (to three) weeks. Tablet Satronidazole 300 mg BID for two (to three) weeks. Tablet serratiopeptidase 10 mg BID for three (to four) weeks. Recently only I have noted that the different types of worm infestations may also act as infected focus in some individuals. Pelvic inflammation is so much so common that the medical science has taken 20 mm of ESR limit as common pattern for females. For the males the limit is only 10 mm of Wintrobe. I personally do not agree with this limit of 20 mm. It should be 10 mm in both the sexes.