Rheumatoid Arthritis

If you feel pain and stiffness in your body or have trouble moving around, you might have arthritis. Most kinds of arthritis cause pain and swelling in your joints. Joints are places where two bones meet, such as your elbow or knee. Over time, a swollen joint can become severely damaged. Some kinds of arthritis can also cause problems in your organs, such as your eyes or skin.

One type of arthritis, osteoarthritis, is often related to aging or to an injury. Other types occur when your immune system, which normally protects your body from infection, attacks your body's own tissues. Rheumatoid arthritis is the most common form of this kind of arthritis. Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis is a form of the disease that happens in children.

As it turns out the “hot” in chiles can relieve pain under certain circumstances.

For example, it reduces pain in arthritis patients when topically applied as a cream repeatedly over several weeks and can be used to treat the neuropathic pain of post-surgical neuralgia. It has also been used to treat nerve pain due to sores inside the mouth from cancer therapy.

28 Dec 2005  Following a review of safety information, Health Canada is informing the public that Bextra, an anti-inflammatory drug used to treat arthritis and pain, will not return to the market.

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