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Date: 24.02.2017
From: Jemma

Subject: Rheumatoid Arthritis

Hello everyone i am a university student and at present im studying health and social care, i am doing a presentation and the question is CAN A WARM CLIMATE AID RHEUMATOID SUFFERERS? I am looking for your opinions please, I will be using the information you give me in my presentation but don't worry it will all be confidential
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Date: 24.02.2017
From: Dalton

Subject: Re: Rheumatoid Arthritis

Personally I do not think the warmer weather helps. I have been in awful pain with inflammation on holiday in hot countries. As it is the immune system and not wear and tear my RA affects me any time anywhere irrespective of weather.
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Date: 25.02.2017
From: lucy

Subject: Re: Rheumatoid Arthritis

I agree with Dalton although I find the damp weather can often make me feel worse and we have plenty damp weather here in Scotland.
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Date: 25.02.2017
From: lois

Subject: Re: Rheumatoid Arthritis

Yes I find it helps me. Not when it is humid hot this is as bad as cold and rain.
It is the air pressure mainly that is the issue or so my consultant has informed me.
I have to say that many I have talked to about this have a very different view.
Good luck Jemma with your presentation.
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Date: 26.02.2017
From: Suz

Subject: Re: Rheumatoid Arthritis

I feel my Rheumatoid Arthritis triggered off after taking septrin antibiotics 20 years ago.. The rain or cold weather doesn't affect it much but it does feel nice on sunnier days. Main flare up I get from are eating foods which give me inflammation. tomatoes, cows milk, wheat, sugar. red meat.
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Date: 05.03.2017
From: Marilyn

Subject: Re: Rheumatoid Arthritis

In my view,
Good weather certainly helps although barometric pressure is definitely an issue as is humidity if in a very humid climate ..

I don't believe a quick holiday to anywhere tells you anything really eg if its better or worse, simply because you are not actually there long enough for your body to become acclimatised to the warmer weather

and yes food groups can certainly spark off inflammation, especially glutten, dairy, sugar etc

Having said all that each to their own, I happen to live in Australia and can only relay what my Dr tells me is the case & what I have personally found.

Good luck with your paper
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Date: 05.03.2017
From: Marilyn

Subject: Re: Rheumatoid Arthritis

Suz, just curious, do you think the bacteria you were fighting 20 yrs ago could have sparked your arthritis rather than the antibiotics you took back then?
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Date: 05.03.2017
From: Suz

Subject: Re: Rheumatoid Arthritis

Hello Marilyn,

I was given antibiotics on the assumption I had a water infection but that wasn't confirmed or checked. After taking the antibiotics my hand started swelling. Antibiotics wrong type sometimes have a certain effect on your gut balance and immune system by switching on certain inflammation receptors. This Antibiotic is now banned from being prescribed.
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Date: 07.03.2017
From: Sean

Subject: Re: Rheumatoid Arthritis

Hi Marilyn

Based on the research I think it could be either - or even a bit of both.

It it was a UTI then these are often a bacteria called "proteus mirabilis" - which is heavily associated with RA.

If the antibiotic was unintentionally targeting other "protective bacteria" then the immune system may incorrectly "present" the UTI bug to the immune system and trigger errant T and B cell response.

Other present bacteria "inform" immune response a bit like a witness to a crime - when an arrest is being made by a policeman.

Diet / Antibiotics can influence the balance of reliable witnesses.
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Date: 09.03.2017
From: Suz

Subject: Re: Rheumatoid Arthritis

That's Good explanation Sean..lol Thank you
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Date: 09.03.2017
From: Sean

Subject: Re: Rheumatoid Arthritis

Hi Suz - just out of interest what was the antibiotic that was banned.

If you are interested - I stumbled on this a few days ago is really quite clear... and relates to the above on infection.

https://www.omicsonline.org/microbial-infection-and-rheumatoid-arthritis-2155-9899.1000174.php?aid=21312

"Numerous studies have shown the clinical association of microbial infection with RA. Infection is often detected in early RA and can precede the occurrence of clinical arthritis. These observations suggest that infection contributes to the initiation and EXAGGERATION of RA"

Another factor it mentions is that bacteria in gums / teeth CAUSE cittrullination - they react (as an enzyme) with other bacterial and food proteins to create a "cittrullinated" variation of a given proteins that makes it more similar to human proteins - thus causing a bigger challenge to the immune system in differentiating the protein from own tissue.

Smoking also creates more cittrulination activity in the mouth.
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Date: 09.03.2017
From: Suz

Subject: Re: Rheumatoid Arthritis

Hi Sean

It was called Septrin.

Thanks for the link on infection/Rheumatoid connection.
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Date: 12.03.2017
From: Colin w

Subject: Re: Rheumatoid Arthritis

Quick answer to weather helping arthritis, Ra no,has no effect, OA yes,makes a big difference

Suz, maybe it started your RA, mine I am pretty sure is cadmium posining a few years before I developed RA
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Date: 13.03.2017
From: Sean

Subject: Re: Rheumatoid Arthritis

Colin - you might have seen these two, rather than just the gut it appears that lungs can also be the cross over point for citrullinated proteins...

"significantly increased risk of rheumatoid arthritis reported in Italian male steel workers be explained by occupational exposure to cadmium?"

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12995-016-0111-z

"Fine cadmium dusts have the potential to cause citrullination"

https://journal-inflammation.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12950-015-0103-2
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