Island Life Magazine Ltd December 2014/January 2015 | Page 81

FASHION HEALTH & BEAUTY

"A lot of money and effort is being spent to
try to discover treatments that will improve
symptoms and control, and try to prevent
damage progressing once it occurs."

on drinking or smoking helps, although
drinking sometimes makes you put on
weight. There is also no evidence that
cutting out red meats, tomatoes, and acid
foods makes a difference.
He continued: “There are lots of different
types of pain relief medication and
injections which can ease symptoms and
allow people to live with their symptoms,
without needing to progress to surgery. In
fact most people who get osteoarthritis
don't need a joint replacement - it is not
inevitable. But if you need hip or knee
surgery, then they are about the most
successful operations medicine has to
offer, and results are normally very good.
“Cod liver oil contains something similar
to aspirin so if you take it you get a