toxic synovitis?

Answer 1

This is the first time I've ever hear those two words in conjunction with each other, but, synovial fluid is the lubricant produced in most of your joints like your elbows, and knees and knuckles, and such, so that your bones and cartilege slide across the surfaces of each other instead of wearing the joint out when the bones stop growing in the late teens or early twenties..

Synovitis, therefore, would be an inflamation of the surfaces coated with synovial fluid.

The term 'toxic' means poisonous.

I'm not sure what would cause synovial fluid to become toxic, though.

I take that back. There are no blood vessels on the surfaces of the bones and cartilege in any of your joints, so any time you get any kind of infection within the joint, there are no blood vessels to help carry microbial waste products away, so those waste products remain within the joints, and pollute the synovial fluid, making it toxic.

Some of those toxins break down and become small enough molecules to work their way back into the tissues of the joint and into the bloodstream, where they wind up poisoning the rest of your body, giving you all the symptoms of a full-blown illness, until the liver can break them down into harmless, or even beneficial chemicals, but even then, as long as the infection is still running strong, you won't be getting any better.

The problem with a synovitis, is that oral antibiotics don't help, because the antibiotics are large chemicals that don't exit the bloodstream into the joints and into the infection any more than larger microbial waste products enter the blood stream. So, the only treatments I perceive of are antibiotics by injection, cleansing and antibiotics by orthoscopy, by lower-tech slice-and-stitch surgery, and by sitting around and waiting for your white blood cells to find their way into the joint and overwhelm the infection, which will also be a very, very, slow process.

Answer 2

Synovial tissue is the tissue between the cartilage and the bone. The joints contain what is called synovial fluid. Yes, either of these can become infected, and as a result, yes, any of these can become toxic.

This requires a doctor's involvement.