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Latest treatments for gout

Gout — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 04:05:38 +0000

As soon as anyone finds out they have gout the first thing they ask is what is the latest treatment for gout?

Everyone thinks that having the latest greatest treatment will help them deal with their gouty arthritis. In fact most treatments for gout haven’t changed in years.

Your diet is a big part of how good or bad your gout attacks will be and you are totally in control of your diet and your lifestyle. Sure drugs can help but you must always be wondering do gout drugs stop working?

The answer is that everyones bodies are slightly different and some people will be able to pretty much eliminate their gout just be diet and a few pills once in a while. Other people will have to take medication forever and the worry is that over time they will lose their effectiveness.

In some ways we are lucky we have gout and not something that is totally out of our control, if you are ready to change your lifestyle then you are already ahead of the game where gout is concerned.

Do I have Gout?

Gout — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 02:23:01 +0000

One morning i stretched and my muscle in my toe and leg tightened ALOT, and my toe hurt all that week, now its back, im not sure what it is. Ive had a pain at the begining of big toeEspecially at where it connects to foot on side, but its gotten worse, then better(but not much) when i slept with it raised. Could it be gout. The skin where it hurts is pink, but i think its just bruising. Long periods of inactivity usedto hurt, now it doesnt hurt unless i stretch or touch it. Help please!

Proper Gout Diet Prevents and Eases Gout Symptoms

Gout — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 13:01:12 +0000

Groshan Fabiola asked:

Also referred to as “the disease of kings”, the occurrence and development of gout are strongly determined by improper diet. In the past, the disease predominantly affected nobles and royalty, due to their access to an abundance of foods that are known today to have high risks of causing gout. These days, many people are still confronted with gout, as they consume foods that interfere in the normal activity of the body. Mostly people living in developed societies are the ones who tend to be affected by gout. The consumption of some exotic foods like seafood (oysters, caviar, calamari, sushi) or improper diets that contain a lot of meats (pork, poultry, beef) are the factors that seem to facilitate the occurrence and the development of the disease. Statistics indicate that people who live in less-developed countries have a smaller chance of developing gout. Also, research results reveal the preponderance of obese people among those who are suffering from different forms of gout.

Gout is a type of rheumatoid arthritis that causes pain and inflammation of the joints. The joints of the lower body seem to be affected the most. People with gout experience discomfort, swelling, local irritation and redness, itching sensations, pain, sometimes feeling a sensation of cold around the affected areas, the skin in those regions often looking stretched. Gout can also affect skin and soft tissue such as muscles and tendons, making them less flexible. Gout is known to be caused mainly by the presence in excess of crystallized uric acid deposits inside the body, which are difficultly eliminated by the kidneys. Improper diet can lead to more accumulation of uric acid in the body, as some foods that contain high levels of purine are synthesized by the body into uric acid.

A proper gout diet and a healthy lifestyle are the best means of preventing and easing the symptoms of gout. It is a fact that there is no specific cure for gout and the treatment often prescribed for the disease usually acts by controlling pain attacks and inflammation. There is little that medicines can do for the patients who suffer from gout, especially for those who have chronic forms of the disease. Proper gout diet can both ease the symptoms of gout and prevent injury and complications. It is known to be the best way of handling the effects of the disease.

Proper gout diet replaces the foods that are considered to cause gout due to their high levels of purine with healthy, better tolerated foods. Foods that are rich in saturated fats should also be avoided.

The foods that are known to have high levels of purine are meats like pork, beef, lamb, poultry, organ meats (brain, kidneys, liver and heart), fish and seafood (sardines, mackerel, oysters, caviar, calamari and crabs) and fat dairy products such as cheese, milk and butter. Even some vegetables like spinach, beans and peas are known to conatin large amounts of purines. However, green vegetables are thought to have no malign effects to the body. Fruits not only have low levels of purines, (and they are strongly recommended in any gout diet) but they also contain vitamins and minerals that are vital in the proper functioning of the body. Vitamin C, contained by most fruits, is a powerful natural anti-oxidant which helps in easing the symptoms of gout.

Among fruits and green vegetables, a proper gout diet can also contain some meats (chicken and low-fat meats) and low-fat milk. Cereals are also good for gout. A proper gout diet should contain: fruits, tomatoes, broccoli, soy (soy replacements of certain dairy products like milk and cheese are strongly recommended), brown rice, cereals, and bread. Drinking plenty of water (around two liters each day) is also important for easing the symptoms of gout, helping the kidneys to eliminate the surplus of uric acid.

I need to find remedies for gout

Gout — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 20:33:01 +0000

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.

I Love Red Meat Is That Causing My Gout?

Gout — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 22:39:18 +0000

My question is .. I love red meat , particulary game meats like venison, someone was telling me today that this could be causing me to develop gout. I don’t know if I have gout yet, but I do sometimes get swelling in my feet and particularly my big toe gets hot and hurts.

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Your diet is definitely not helping you, even if you don’t have gout yet (and it does sound like you may have gout) eating red meat, game meat or just about anything else in excess is bad for you.

Eating red meat in excess means you run the risk of high blood pressure as well as gout. If you work at making your diet more gout friendly then you will also find that it is more heart friendly as well so you really can help yourself a lot just by cutting down on your red meat consumption and your alcohol intake.

As well as cutting down on meat you should be adding foods that are low in purines and even start drinking cherry juice as that will help remove the uric acid that is already in your system.

How do I know if I have gout?

Gout — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 05:57:16 +0000

Every 3 or 4 months my left foot gets really swollen and painful. I’ve been to the doctor about it before and he did a uric acid level test. This is meant to help them find out if I have gout or not.

The test came back saying that my uric acid levels were high that means it’s possible that I do have gout, but there was nothing the Dr could do because it hadn’t flared up at the time I was there visiting him.

So if the Dr can’t tell me how do I know if I have gout, even if my foot doesn’t get warm and red, and my big toe doesn’t hurt?

I do get the pain and MAJOR swelling that most people say is a sign of gout. The pain and swelling extends right the way to my shin.

Treating Gout

Gout — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:57:51 +0000

Amongst the most effective ways to treat gout is also the most unpopular way, Diet!

Most people who develop gout are men who eat to much red meat, game meat or drink to much alcohol, admittedly that isn’t everyone but it is enough people to make it worth mentioning.

As a man I can tell you that one thing we hate is to be told we must stop doing something we like to do, whether that is eating huge steaks or having a beer with our dinner. Gout attacks have been linked to diet for hundreds of years and that isn’t going to change.

Treating gout is as simple as changing your diet, if you start to cut out the bad foods and add in some foods that will help lower your uric acid levels then you are treating your gout without taking any medication.

Gout treatments are available from your Dr but they are still medications and that means that you are putting more chemicals into your body and even the best medications have the potential for side effects.

As well as changing your diet you should look at any medications you are already taking and see if they are known to increase your uric acid levels, if so then before stopping taking them go and see your Dr with print outs of your research and discuss any alternatives that are available.

Gout Symptoms – What to Look for

Gout — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:16:57 +0000

The uric acid crystals that cause gout will have been building up in your joints for years before they cause your first actual attack of gout. You may not even realize that the aches and pains are not just normal aging pains until you have a full blown gout attack.

Sometimes the pain can begin during the night and it can become extremely intense so that even the lightest pressure placed upon (including just a sheet covering it) can be intolerable to some people.

Many people who suffer from gout find that when an attack occurs the discomfort that they feel comes on very rapidly and may last for a few hours during the night. But then the discomfort that they are feeling will slowly begin to ease once more over the following 2 to 7 days.

If you or someone you know starts to have any of the gout symptoms we have mentioned here it is vital that they go to see a DR. While the initial pain may dissipate after a few days it will come back , and may be much worse the next time, unless they take proper medication.