Consuming healthy foods for the body in the required amounts is the basis for the prevention of various ailments. Poor nutrition in gout is one of the main causes of its complications, which is recognized by doctors and patients themselves. If the patient does not exclude prohibited foods from his diet, this can lead to an exacerbation and acceleration of destructive processes in the joints.
What foods can you eat? How to correctly compose a menu for gout? Before answering these questions, you need to understand what you absolutely cannot eat with gout and arthritis. Treatment of this disease is a rather long process. The priorities of therapy are the elimination of pain and the relief of a sudden attack.
What products are prohibited
Almost everyone knows how animal fats affect the human body. But many people with gout are in no hurry to exclude them from their diet. But this is what can cause the progression of the disease.
So, with this ailment, it is absolutely impossible to use:
- Beans;
- alcohol;
- spices (except vinegar and bay leaf);
- green peas;
- Beans;
- mushrooms;
- Salo.
As statistics show, exacerbations of gout often begin when the patient begins to eat improperly, allowing himself to eat fatty fish, meat and lard. Drinking alcohol with gout is strictly prohibited, but not all patients observe this rule. Alcohol, like fatty foods, slows down the excretion of uric acid salts and their deposits from the body.
With gout, the body weakens, while alcohol leaves practically no chance to resist the disease. Alcohol, even in very small amounts, can trigger a sudden attack of gout. In addition, pain symptoms in this case will last much longer and manifest themselves more strongly. At the same time, drugs will not be able to effectively extinguish them, since alcohol in the human body will interfere with the effects of drugs. What will be the result of drinking alcohol? Acceleration of the process of deposition of uric acid salts and general intoxication of the organism.
Sausages and smoked meats are very dangerous for gout, as is table salt. Mushrooms are useful products for a number of diseases, as they contain trace elements necessary for a person. But people with gout should not eat them. What spice can be used when preparing diet food? What seasoning to choose? Just bay leaf and vinegar. If gout occurs against the background of diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, then vinegar and vinegar water can not be used for cooking.
The patient must exclude any canned food from his diet. Do you give yourself sprats? Expect a gout flare. Salty and spicy cheeses can also aggravate it. Legumes, coffee, tea, beer, meat broths are capable of causing complications. Any overeating with gout is fraught with the fact that it can provoke an attack, which, if the diet is violated, will be aggravated by additional complications.
With an exacerbation of gout, the list of products that the patient can consume is further reduced. It is also necessary to know that the recipes for dishes that prepare gout should not include frying the ingredients under any circumstances.
What is good to eat with gout?
Nutrition for gout depends not only on the stage of the course of the disease, but also on concomitant diseases. On the question of how to correctly compose a menu and what nutrition scheme to choose, a rheumatologist, gastroenterologist and nutritionist will give the most accurate answer. There are gout products that can be consumed, but only in limited amounts.
The following foods are helpful for gout:
- any vegetables (except spicy and cauliflower);
- vegetables (except sorrel, spinach, celery);
- various fruits (especially citrus fruits);
- low-fat dairy products and sour milk;
- eggs (quail and chicken);
- honey;
- cereals;
- vegetable oil.
The diet for this ailment may include a small amount of fish or meat. Recipes for cooking boiled poultry are very simple. In some cases, pumpkin is added to it, which helps improve digestion. It is often recommended to include this vegetable in the diet for joint diseases. Pumpkin, like tomatoes, improves digestion, helps remove uric acid deposits from the body. With exacerbation of gout, pumpkin and tomatoes are not excluded from the diet.
It is generally accepted that people with gout should not limit their intake of tomatoes. But if the patient has certain disorders in the functioning of the gastrointestinal tract, a large number of these vegetables will provoke an exacerbation of stomach diseases. Recipes for dishes that require a lot of vegetables for cooking should be excluded for gout patients. However, all types of dill can be consumed.
What about butter and milk? On the one hand, the body needs them, on the other hand, they can aggravate gout. How to use these products correctly? With an exacerbation of the disease, milk and butter can not be eaten. At the stage of remission, they are allowed as additional to useful products. Kashi is the foundation of proper nutrition for people suffering from gout. Recipes for these dishes include the addition of butter or milk. During an exacerbation of gout, porridge is cooked in water.
Vegetable soups are a true miracle cure for gout. Vegetables can be combined with cereals and pasta, adding variety to the patient's menu. Once a week, it is imperative to organize a fasting day, during which you use only one product. Whether or not it is possible to organize such a discharge during the period of exacerbation of the disease is debatable. Many doctors assure: during an attack of gout, one cannot speak of any unloading days, such nutrition will further weaken the body and will not bring the desired therapeutic effect.
Proteins are required by the human body for any disease. What product to choose to satisfy this need and not harm your health? Egg. You should know: every day you can eat only one egg, otherwise the protein received by the body will cause the release of a significant portion of uric acid into the blood.
Black and white bread are very useful for gout. Seeds and nuts too. What kind of apples to give preference to gout? Experts advise choosing those apples whose skin is green.
Shellfish help reduce the level of uric acid in the body. Calamari do an excellent job with this task. Salad recipes, where squid is combined with various vegetables and seaweed, should be chosen carefully. Which one will fit? Only one is required where there are no vegetables, seasonings and a small amount of vegetable oil.
Benefits of mineral water
Mineral water should be in the diet of a person suffering from gout. The patient should drink an average of 2. 5 liters of water per day, but only if he does not have chronic kidney disease. Also, he can drink boiled or mineral water, juices, decoctions, compotes, green tea.
If you pour rosehips or dried fruits with boiling water and let them stand in a thermos, you will get an excellent compote, in which a maximum of vitamins is stored. With gout, boiled water is poured over medicinal herbs to obtain useful infusions. What composition to choose for such an infusion, a phytotherapist will recommend.
Mineral water is no less popular remedy. It differs in font placement and composition. To treat gout, you should drink slightly alkaline water. The package label contains all the necessary information. It is best to choose mineral water. But you should use only the mineral water recommended by the doctor.