The consumption of healthy food for the body in the required quantities is the basis for the prevention of various ailments. Improper diet in gout is one of the main causes of its complications, recognized by doctors and patients themselves. If the patient does not exclude prohibited foods from his diet, this can cause an exacerbation and acceleration of the destructive processes of the joints.
What foods can you eat? How to properly compose a menu for gout? Before answering these questions, it is necessary to understand what absolutely cannot be eaten with gout and arthritis. Treatment of this disease is a rather long process. The priorities of therapy are the removal 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 rush to exclude them from their diet. But this is what can cause the disease to progress.
So, with this ailment, it is absolutely impossible to use:
- beans;
- alcohol;
- spices (except vinegar and bay leaf);
- peas;
- beans;
- mushrooms;
- salo.
As the statistics show, exacerbations of gout often begin when the patient begins to eat improperly, allowing himself to eat fatty fish, meat, lard. It is strictly forbidden to drink alcohol with gout, but not all patients observe this rule. Alcohol, like fatty foods, delays the excretion of uric acid salts and their deposits from the body.
With gout, the body weakens, while alcohol leaves virtually no chance to resist the disease. Alcohol, even in very small amounts, can cause a sudden gout attack. In addition, the 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, as alcohol in the human body will interfere with the effects 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 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 the gouty shouldn't eat them. What spice can be used when preparing diet foods? Which seasoning to choose? Only bay leaf 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. Give yourself sprat? Expect an exacerbation of gout. 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 further complications.
With an exacerbation of gout, the list of products that can be consumed by the patient is further reduced. It is also necessary to know that recipes for dishes that prepare gout should in no case include frying of the ingredients.
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. When asked how to properly compose a menu and which nutritional scheme to choose, the most accurate answer will be given by a rheumatologist, gastroenterologist and nutritionist. There are gout products that can be consumed, but only in limited quantities.
The following foods are useful for gout:
- any vegetables (except spicy and cauliflower);
- vegetables (except sorrel, spinach, celery);
- various fruits (especially citrus fruits);
- low-fat dairy and sour-milk products;
- eggs (quail and chicken);
- Honey;
- cereals;
- vegetable oil.
The diet for this disorder can include a small amount of fish or meat. The recipes for cooking boiled poultry are very simple. In some cases, pumpkin is added, 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 the exacerbation 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 the consumption of tomatoes. But if the patient has certain disturbances 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 to cook 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 aggravate gout. How to use these products correctly? With an exacerbation of the disease, milk and butter cannot be eaten. At the stage of remission, they are allowed in addition to useful products. Kashi is the basis of proper nutrition for people suffering from gout. Recipes for these dishes include adding butter or milk. During an exacerbation of gout, porridges are cooked in water.
Vegetable soups are a true miracle cure for gout. Vegetables can be combined with cereals and pasta, which adds variety to the patient's menu. Once a week it is a must to organize a fasting day, during which to use only one product. It is questionable whether or not it is possible to organize such discharge during the period of exacerbation of the disease. Many doctors assure: during a gout attack, there can be no talk of a day of discharge, 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. Which product to choose to meet this need and not harm your health? Egg. You need to know: you can only eat one egg every day, 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 is very useful for gout. Even seeds and nuts. What kind of apples should you prefer over gout? Experts advise to choose those apples whose skin is green.
Seafood helps reduce the level of uric acid in the body. Squids do a great job with this task. Salad recipes, in which squid are combined with various vegetables and seaweed, should be chosen carefully. Which one will do? Only one where there are no vegetables, seasonings and a small amount of vegetable oil is needed.
Benefits 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 both boiled and mineral water, juices, decoctions, compotes, green tea.
If you pour wild rose or dried fruit with boiling water and let them brew in a thermos, you will get a great compote, in which a maximum of vitamins is stored. With gout, boiled water is poured over medicinal herbs to make useful infusions. What composition to choose for such an infusion, a phytotherapist will advise.
Mineral water is no less popular remedy. It differs in the location of the source and in the composition. To cure gout, you need to drink slightly alkaline water. The container label contains all the necessary information. It is better to choose mineral water. But you should only use the mineral water recommended by the doctor.