What is Arthritis?
Arthritis is a degenerative joint disease, that involves inflammation of one or more joints. There are over 100 different types of arthritis. The most common form, osteoarthritis involves the breakdown of cartilage. The breakdown of cartilage can take place as as a result of trauma to the joint, infection of the joint, or age. This causes causes the bones to rub against each other, causing stiffness, swelling (inflammation), pain and loss of movement in the joint. Other forms of arthritis include rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, and related autoimmune diseases. Septic arthritis is caused by joint infection. The main complaint among individuals who suffer from arthritis is joint pain. The pain is usually localized to the joint affected and is due to inflammation that occurs around the joint, damage to the joint from disease, daily wear and tear of joint, muscle strains caused by forceful movements against stiff, painful joints and fatigue.
What is Tendinitis and Bursitis?
Tendinitis or bursitis often involves the shoulder, elbow, wrist, hip, knee and ankle. The pain caused by Bursitis and Tendinitis could be quite severe and is worse during movement.
What is tendinitis?
Tendons are cord-like structures located where a muscle narrows down to attach to a bone. The tendon is more fibrous and dense than the elastic, fleshy muscle. A tendon transmits the pull of the muscle to the bone to cause movement.
Tendinitis (informally also tendonitis), means the inflammation of a tendon. Tendinitis is often very tender to the touch. The term tendinitis is reserved for tendon injuries that involve larger-scale acute injuries accompanied by inflammation. Generally tendinitis is referred to by the body part involved, such as Achilles tendinitis (affecting the Achilles tendon), or patellar tendinitis (jumper's knee, affecting the patellar tendon).
What is bursitis?
Bursitis is the inflammation of one or more bursae (small sacs) of synovial fluid in the body. The bursae rest at the points where internal functionaries, such as muscles and tendons, slide across bone. This small sac acts as a cushion between moving structures (bones, muscles, tendons or skin). Healthy bursae create a smooth, almost frictionless functional gliding surface making normal movement painless. If a muscle or tendon is pulling around a corner of a bone, or over a bone, a healthy bursa protects it from fraying and stress.
When bursitis occurs and a bursa is inflamed, movement relying upon the inflamed bursa becomes difficult and painful. Moreover, movement of tendons and muscles over the inflamed bursa aggravates its inflammation, perpetuating the problem. Muscle can also be stiffened.
Tendinitis can occur from a sudden intense injury. Most often, though, it results from a repeated, minor injury of that tendon. Doctors call this repetitive stress or overuse. Examples of such injuries are painting a ceiling for four hours or more, typing long hours, improper body position while using a keyboard, chopping, cutting or sawing may result in tendinitis or bursitis hours or days later. Tight clenching while using hand tools or while driving a long time, using a backhand, mainly single handed, in an early-season game of tennis ("tennis elbow") and wearing improper running shoes or not getting the proper training before sports are other examples.
Generic Indocin Capsules (Inmecin) – Product Information
Generic Indocin Capsules (Inmecin Capsules) is used to relieve moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis including acute flares of chronic disease, moderate to severe ankylosing spondylitis, moderate to severe osteoarthritis, acute painful shoulder (bursitis and/or tendinitis) and acute gouty arthritis.
The active ingredient present in Generic Indocin Capsules is Indomethacin.
Indomethacin is marketed under trade names such as Inmecin,Indocid, Indocid Pda, Indocid Sr, Indocin, Rheumacin, Indocap, Indochron and several others.
Generic Indocin Capsules (Inmecin Capsules) - Contraindications
Generic Indocin Capsules (Inmecin Capsules) is contraindicated in patients with known hypersensitivity to indomethacin or any inactive ingredient present in Generic Indocin Capsules.
Inmecin Capsules (Generic Indocin) should not be given to patients who have experienced asthma, urticaria, or allergic-type reactions after taking aspirin or other NSAIDs. Severe, rarely fatal, anaphylactic/anaphylactoid reactions to NSAIDs have been reported in such patients. Indomethacin (Generic Indocin) is also contraindicated for the treatment of peri-operative pain in the setting of coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery.
Generic Indocin (Inmecin Capsules) - Dosage
The recommended adult Oral dosage of Generic Indocin(Inmecin Capsules) for adults is given below:
Moderate To Severe Rheumatoid Arthritis Including Acute Flares Of Chronic Disease, Moderate To Severe Ankylosing Spondylitis, And Moderate To Severe Osteoarthritis
Recommended Adult Dosage: Indomethacin capsules 25 mg twice a day or three times a day If this is well tolerated, increase the daily dosage by 25 or by 50 mg, if required by continuing symptoms, at weekly intervals until a satisfactory response is obtained or until a total daily dose of 150 to 200 mg is reached.
Acute Painful Shoulder (Bursitis And/Or Tendinitis)
The initial adult doseage is 75 to 150 mg daily in 3 or 4 divided doses. Generic Indocin (Inmecin capsules) should be discontinued after the signs and symptoms of inflammation have been controlled for several days. The usual course of therapy is 7 to 14 days.
Acute Gouty Arthritis
The adult dosage is 50 mg of Generic Indocin capsules thrice a day until pain is tolerable. The dose should then be rapidly reduced to complete cessation of the drug. Definite relief of pain has been reported within 2 to 4 hours. Tenderness and heat usually subside in 24 to 36 hours, and swelling gradually disappears in 3 to 5 days.
Side Effects of Generic Indocin Capsules (Indomethacin)
The most common side effects reported in patients treated with Generic Indocin are headache, dizziness, light-headedness, changes in mood including depression, tiredness, spinning sensation (vertigo), stomach upset including nausea (feeling sick), vomiting, abdominal pain, loss of appetite, constipation, diarrhoea, ringing ears or other hearing disturbances flushing, and sweating.
The rare but serious side effects of Indomethacin include severe stomach pain or tenderness, eye problems including blurred vision, irregular heart beat, bleeding or bruising more frequently, jaundice (symptoms include yellowing of the skin and eyes), hepatitis, rash, itchy skin, loss of hair, unusual weight gain, swelling of ankles or legs, signs of anaemia such as tiredness, being short of breath, looking pale, changes in the frequency that you urinate or difficulty passing urine, dark coloured or cloudy urine.
Generic Indocin Capsules - More Details
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