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I need to find remedies for gout

Having gout is bad enough, the pain from gout is something that I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy but having no health insurance makes it even worse.

The costs to go see a Dr every time you get a swollen big toe joint and then add on the cost of any medication he may tell you to take and you are easily looking at a hundred dollars or more. While I can not tell you that I know some miracle home remedies or magic cure for gout that I know about but no one else does I can tell you a few things that you can and should be doing to help yourself.

Start doing things to prevent your next gout attack rather than waiting till you wake up in the middle of the night in excruciating pain and then wish you had taken more notice.

Before you start mixing up home remedies for gout you can start changing what you eat.

  • Cut Out Game Meat
  • Stop Eating Liver and Organ Meat
  • Drink More Water
  • Cut Down on Red Meat

Increasing your water intake will help your kidneys deal with the uric acid that you do take and since game, organs and red meat are all high in purines (which become uric acid)  cutting those out of your diet will help your body deal with the uric acid that is one of the root causes of your gout.