To achieve an immediate therapeutic effect, people suffering from a disease such as gout, nutritionists prescribe special diet food. From medical practice, there are many cases when, thanks to a strict diet, in the presence of kidney or joint damage in a patient, a positive therapeutic result was achieved. This is explained by the fact that the diet for this disease helps reduce the production of purines of exogenous origin
Compliance with a strict diet for gout affecting the ankles is not determined at all by strict fasting, neither during its recurrent attacks, nor in the period between them. It is necessary to choose correctly those food products, the use of which is vital for the patient, which is an important point in treatment.People with gout should eat a specific diet to help stabilize uric acid levels. In any person, during a routine examination, you may accidentally find an increase in the indicators of this parameter. In this case, you need to adhere to the dietary regimen in the diet. This approach to the preparation of the patient's menu leads to a significant reduction in the likelihood of recurrence of disease attacks, allows you to prevent severe deposition of purines, respectively a significant amount of their composition in organs and tissues.
Basic principles of nutritional therapy for gout
A gout patient should eat systematically, dividing the entire daily portion of food into at least 4 meals. This will help stop the process of saturating the blood serum with purine bases. In no case is it recommended to eat too much with gout, otherwise an increase in the patient's body weight is possible, which negatively affects the joints when moving. But hunger should also not be allowed. Obese people's body weight should be reduced gradually, but not more than 2 kg per month.
Throughout the day, a gout patient needs to consume about 2 liters of water during remission and at least 3 liters when a worsening of the disease occurs. It should not be forgotten that the use of mineral water, which contains an alkali, favorably favors the removal of urates from the patient's body.
Prohibited foods for gout
A very important point is to choose the right diet for a gout patient. It is necessary to minimize the amount of those products that contain multiple purine bases. These include the following:
- soup
- made from meat, fish and mushrooms (purines in them are in an easily soluble form);
- lungs and viscera, liver and kidneys;
- meat-based sauces and canned foods;
- animal fats;
- garden crops from beans and peas of the legume family, beans and lentils, soybeans;
- smoked meats, all kinds of sausage.
There are foods that affect acidity in the body. To prevent a sharp increase in the amount of acid in the tissues, you should also exclude from the diet foods such as:
- spices, mustard, pepper, horseradish;
- vegetable-based sauces;
- spinach, fresh herbs, sorrel;
- salted fish and various dishes with its contents;
- beverages containing alcohol (especially wine and beer);
- products containing significant amounts of butter and cocoa;
- salty and spicy cheeses.
it is necessary to restrict patients from taking table salt and fats in order to prevent the accumulation of urate in the tissues.
Under no circumstances should you eat fried foods for gout.
List of Allowed Foods for Gout
Purine bases are found in low amounts in milk, Swiss cheese, chicken eggs, bread, caviar, nuts and hazelnuts. You can eat millet and carrots, pearl barley and buckwheat. During the diet, you can eat a small portion of fish or meat prepared by roasting or boiling once every seven days.
Increasing the amount of fluids you drink will help the patient get rid of uric acid compounds. In this case, you should use only purified or boiled water.
It is imperative to reduce the nutritional level of food consumed by gout patients. With accompanying overweight, especially. With this disease, you can include small amounts of tomatoes in your diet. Of the spices it is recommended to use only laurel leaves for the preparation of dietary dishes.
Fruits and vegetables are very useful in case of gout, but only in live form. Sometimes the patient needs fasting days. At the same time, it is recommended to drink only fruit and vegetable juices during the day, and the use of ascorbic acid should also be included.
Gout fasting
During exacerbations of this unpleasant disease, some patients independently decide on treatment by fasting to cleanse their body of excess purines. But, this decision in the diet is completely unjustified. With this practice, there is a sharp deterioration of the overall condition of the patient. During fasting, the body's food intake stops, which makes it impossible to meet its energy needs, as a result of which it begins to consume its reserves. In this case, the most accessible material is the protein composition. Strong therefore from the beginning of fasting, the level of uric acid in the blood serum increases rapidly and is deposited in the synovial membrane of diseased joints, as well as in the tissues of the human body. It all ends with a worsening of gout.
It also happens below. The synovium of the joints accumulates significant deposits of acid salts. In parallel with this process, bridges penetrate the glomeruli of the patient's renal tubules, which contributes to the appearance of an acute form of a disease such as gout nephropathy.