Eating food that is healthy for the body in the necessary quantities is the basis for the prevention of various diseases. Improper nutrition in gout is one of the leading causes of its complications, which doctors and patients themselves recognize. If the patient does not exclude forbidden food from his diet, it can cause deterioration and acceleration of destructive processes in the joints.
What food can you eat? How to properly put together a gout menu? Before answering these questions, you need to understand what absolutely cannot be eaten with gout and arthritis. Treatment of this disease is a rather long-term process. The priorities of therapy are pain relief and relief of a sudden attack.
Which products are prohibited
Almost everyone knows how fats of animal origin affect the human body. But many people with gout are in no rush to eliminate them from their diet. But this is what can cause the disease to progress.
So, with this disease, it is absolutely impossible to use:
- beans;
- alcohol;
- spices (except vinegar and bay leaf);
- peas;
- beans;
- mushrooms;
- fat
As statistics show, exacerbations of gout often begin when the patient begins to eat improperly, allowing himself to eat fatty fish, meat, fat. It is strictly forbidden to drink alcohol with gout, but not every patient follows this rule. Alcohol, like fatty food, slows down the excretion of uric acid salts and their deposits from the body.
With gout, the body is weakened, while alcohol leaves practically no chance to resist the disease. Alcohol, even in very small amounts, can trigger a sudden gout attack. Moreover, the symptoms of pain in this case will last much longer and manifest more strongly. At the same time, drugs will not be able to extinguish them effectively, because alcohol in the human body will interfere with the action of drugs. What will be the result of alcohol consumption? Acceleration of the process of deposition of uric acid salts and general intoxication of the body.
Sausages and smoked meat are very dangerous for gout, as well as table salt. Mushrooms are useful products for a number of diseases, because they contain trace elements necessary for a person. But people with gout should not eat them. Which spice can be used when preparing diet food? Which spice to choose? Just bay leaves and vinegar. If gout occurs against the background of diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, vinegar and vinegar water cannot be used in cooking.
The patient should exclude any canned food from his diet. Treat yourself to sparrows? Expect gout to worsen. Salty and spicy cheeses can also make it worse. Legumes, coffee, tea, beer, meat broths can cause complications. Any overeating with gout is fraught with the fact that it can cause an attack, which, if the diet is violated, will aggravate additional complications.
With the worsening of gout, the list of products that the patient can consume further decreases. It is also necessary to know that recipes for dishes that prepare gout should in no case include frying the ingredients.
What is good to eat for gout
Nutrition in gout depends not only on the stage of the disease, but also on accompanying diseases. A rheumatologist, gastroenterologist, and nutritionist will give the most accurate answer to the question of how to properly put together a menu and which diet plan to choose. There are products for gout that are allowed to be consumed, but only in limited quantities.
The following foods are beneficial for gout:
- any vegetable (except spicy and cauliflower);
- greens (except sorrel, spinach, celery);
- various fruits (especially citrus fruits);
- low-fat milk and sour milk products;
- eggs (quail and chicken);
- honey;
- cereals;
- vegetable oil.
A diet for this disease 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. This vegetable is often recommended for inclusion in the diet for joint diseases. Pumpkin, like tomatoes, improves digestion, helps remove uric acid deposits from the body. With the worsening of gout, pumpkin and tomatoes are not excluded from the diet.
It is generally accepted that people suffering from gout should not be limited in their consumption of tomatoes. But if the patient has certain disorders in the work of the gastrointestinal tract, a large number of these vegetables will cause the exacerbation of stomach diseases. Recipes for dishes that require a lot of greens for cooking should be excluded for patients with gout. 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 worsen gout. How to use these products properly? As the disease worsens, milk and butter cannot be eaten. In the phase of remission, they are allowed as an addition to useful products. Kashi is the basis of proper nutrition for people suffering from gout. Recipes for these dishes include the addition of butter or milk. During the exacerbation of gout, porridges are boiled in water.
Vegetable soups are a real miracle cure for gout. Vegetables can be combined with cereals and pasta, which adds variety to the patients' menu. Once a week, it is mandatory to organize a fasting day, during which only one product is used. It is debatable whether it is possible or not to organize such relief during the period of worsening of the disease. Many doctors assure: during a gout attack, there can be no question of a day of relief, such a diet will further weaken the body and will not bring the desired therapeutic effect.
Proteins are needed by the human body for any disease. Which product to choose to satisfy this need and not harm your health? An egg. You must know: every day you can eat only one egg, otherwise the protein that the body receives will cause the release of a significant part of uric acid into the blood.
Black and white bread are very useful for gout. Seeds and nuts too. Which type of apple should be preferred for gout? Experts advise you to choose those apples whose skin is green.
Seafood helps reduce uric acid levels in the body. Squids excel at this task. Recipes for salads, in which squid are combined with various vegetables and algae, should be chosen carefully. Which one will fit? You only need one that does not contain greens, spices and a small amount of vegetable oil.
Advantages of mineral water
Mineral water must 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. In addition, you can drink boiled or mineral water, juices, decoctions, compotes, green tea.
If you pour boiling water over pomegranate or dried fruit and let them cook in a thermos, you will get an excellent compote, in which the most vitamins are stored. For gout, boiled water is poured over herbs to make useful infusions. Which composition to choose for such an infusion will be recommended by a phytotherapist.
Mineral water is no less popular remedy. It differs in source location and composition. To treat gout, it is necessary to drink slightly alkaline water. The container label contains all the necessary information. It is best to choose mineral water. But you should only use mineral water recommended by your doctor.