Comments on: What is Gout? http://alt-cures.com/88/what-is-gout/ Thu, 05 Aug 2010 01:09:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: anthony http://alt-cures.com/88/what-is-gout/comment-page-1/#comment-1774 anthony Thu, 05 Aug 2010 01:09:24 +0000 http://alt-cures.com/?p=88#comment-1774 I can sympathize with all the gout sufferers. I was told for years beer or alcohol would cause the gout, but it is true that you must find out what your trigger food is. I can eat seafood, drink alcohol and not have a reaction, but I recently found out at the age of 48 that beef is my trigger food. I had a steak one night and the next day my toe flaired up. The following week I had a beef based soup and sure enough, my toe flared up again. The third week, I tempted fate again and ate a hamburger at a BBQ, and it flared again. The main point is what the previous writer wrote, in that you must figure out what your trigger food is and try to cut it down or eliminate it. Eating a pill is not the answer because the pills tend to weaken your kidney functions. Try to drink lots of water during the day and get in a salad also. You will see diminishing attacks of gout like I have. Good luck in finding your trigger food. I can sympathize with all the gout sufferers. I was told for years beer or alcohol would cause the gout, but it is true that you must find out what your trigger food is. I can eat seafood, drink alcohol and not have a reaction, but I recently found out at the age of 48 that beef is my trigger food. I had a steak one night and the next day my toe flaired up. The following week I had a beef based soup and sure enough, my toe flared up again. The third week, I tempted fate again and ate a hamburger at a BBQ, and it flared again. The main point is what the previous writer wrote, in that you must figure out what your trigger food is and try to cut it down or eliminate it. Eating a pill is not the answer because the pills tend to weaken your kidney functions. Try to drink lots of water during the day and get in a salad also. You will see diminishing attacks of gout like I have. Good luck in finding your trigger food.

]]> By: Darrel http://alt-cures.com/88/what-is-gout/comment-page-1/#comment-1766 Darrel Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:36:42 +0000 http://alt-cures.com/?p=88#comment-1766 Gouty arthritis surely must be considered a really unpleasant problem, my own grandfather has been struggling with the condition for many years now. It is absolutely stress filled for me, witnessing a loved family member and friend experience pain attacks all too often. Sticking to an appropriate diet program with the goal of prevention and making use of proper treatment methods is in my opinion a necessity. Personally, I suggest everyone who presently notices the first warning signs of hyperuricemia to by any means take this really serious. Better seek advice from a health care professional as soon as you can and change your food intake to prevent the outbreak of the illness. It is anything but fun, really! Search working options for therapy and stay clear of high purine meals, alcoholic beverages and so forth to take prophylactic measure. Gouty arthritis surely must be considered a really unpleasant problem, my own grandfather has been struggling with the condition for many years now. It is absolutely stress filled for me, witnessing a loved family member and friend experience pain attacks all too often. Sticking to an appropriate diet program with the goal of prevention and making use of proper treatment methods is in my opinion a necessity. Personally, I suggest everyone who presently notices the first warning signs of hyperuricemia to by any means take this really serious. Better seek advice from a health care professional as soon as you can and change your food intake to prevent the outbreak of the illness. It is anything but fun, really! Search working options for therapy and stay clear of high purine meals, alcoholic beverages and so forth to take prophylactic measure.

]]> By: tel http://alt-cures.com/88/what-is-gout/comment-page-1/#comment-1764 tel Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:51:28 +0000 http://alt-cures.com/?p=88#comment-1764 Not everyone reacts to certain foods like everyone else, so some people can eat beans or chicken and suffer no effect and others can't. Beans, especially red kidney beans are relatively high in purines. Purines are known to cause the body to produce more uric acid and if your body is not balanced and has too high levels of this acid in the blood stream, you'll get arthritis symptoms or gout. The best way to combat this is to eat a diet consisting of foods that are low to moderate in purines, although you'll have to experiment a bit to find which ones are worse than other for you. Its can be a lot of work and most people would rather go see a doctor and take a pill than do the research and alter their diet to improve their health by trial and error. It took me many months to find out what I definitely could not eat and even then, it was a few years later that I realized that my main enemy was dairy products, I love cheese and always spread a lot of butter on my bread or toast, drank full fat milk and had a lot of cream on stuff. Now I know better and avoid these most of the time, just having a small treat every now and then. But its your body we're talking about here and maybe its cheese, maybe its mushrooms, or maybe its red kidney beans (or some or all of these). Do you want to just take pills and never get better or do you want to take responsibility for your health and do something about it? This is a harsh question you have to ask yourself and your answer will determine your future quality of life. Not everyone reacts to certain foods like everyone else, so some people can eat beans or chicken and suffer no effect and others can’t. Beans, especially red kidney beans are relatively high in purines. Purines are known to cause the body to produce more uric acid and if your body is not balanced and has too high levels of this acid in the blood stream, you’ll get arthritis symptoms or gout. The best way to combat this is to eat a diet consisting of foods that are low to moderate in purines, although you’ll have to experiment a bit to find which ones are worse than other for you.

Its can be a lot of work and most people would rather go see a doctor and take a pill than do the research and alter their diet to improve their health by trial and error. It took me many months to find out what I definitely could not eat and even then, it was a few years later that I realized that my main enemy was dairy products, I love cheese and always spread a lot of butter on my bread or toast, drank full fat milk and had a lot of cream on stuff. Now I know better and avoid these most of the time, just having a small treat every now and then.

But its your body we’re talking about here and maybe its cheese, maybe its mushrooms, or maybe its red kidney beans (or some or all of these). Do you want to just take pills and never get better or do you want to take responsibility for your health and do something about it? This is a harsh question you have to ask yourself and your answer will determine your future quality of life.

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