Consuming healthy foods for the body in the required quantities 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 provoke an exacerbation and acceleration of destructive processes in the joints.
What foods can you eat? How to properly compose a menu for gout? Before answering these questions, you need to understand what absolutely cannot be eaten with gout and arthritis. The treatment of this disease is quite a 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 fats of animal origin 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 disease, it is absolutely impossible to use:
- Beans;
- alcohol;
- spices (except vinegar and bay leaf);
- peas;
- Beans;
- mushrooms;
- hello.
As statistics show, exacerbations of gout often begin when the patient begins to eat inappropriately, allowing himself to eat fatty fish, meat, lard. It is strictly forbidden to drink alcohol with gout, but not all patients follow this rule. Alcohol, like fatty foods, delays the excretion of uric acid salts and their deposition 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 cause a sudden gout attack. In addition, the symptoms of pain in this case will last much longer and manifest themselves more strongly. At the same time, drugs will not be able to extinguish them effectively, 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 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 people with gout should not eat them. What spice can be used when preparing diet food? Which condiment to choose? Only bay leaves and vinegar. If gout occurs against the background of diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, vinegar and vinegar water can not be used in cooking.
The patient should exclude any canned food from his diet. Do you offer sprats? Expect an exacerbation of gout. Salty and spicy cheeses can also make it worse. 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 worth knowing that recipes for dishes that prepare gout should not include the frying of ingredients in any way.
What is good to eat with gout
Nutrition for gout depends not only on the stage of the disease, but also on concomitant diseases. On the question of how to correctly compose a menu and what nutritional scheme to choose, the most accurate answer will be given by a rheumatologist, a gastroenterologist and a nutritionist. There are gout products that can be consumed, but only in limited amounts.
The following foods are helpful for gout:
- all vegetables (except spicy and cauliflower);
- greens (except sorrel, spinach, celery);
- various fruits (especially citrus fruits);
- low fat dairy products and sour milk products;
- eggs (quail and chicken);
- Honey;
- cereals;
- vegetable oil.
The 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 to 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 gout sufferers should not be restricted in their consumption of tomatoes. But if the patient has certain disorders in the functioning of the gastrointestinal tract, then a large number of such vegetables will provoke an exacerbation of diseases of the stomach. Recipes for dishes that require a lot of green vegetables for cooking should be excluded for gout patients. However, all types of dill can be eaten.
What about butter and milk? On the one hand, the body needs them, on the other hand, they can aggravate gout. How to properly use these products? With an exacerbation of the disease, milk and butter can not be eaten. At the stage of remission, they are allowed as an addition to useful products. Kashi is the foundation of good nutrition for gout sufferers. Recipes for such dishes include the addition of butter or milk. During an exacerbation of gout, porridges are cooked in water.
Vegetable soups are a real 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 imperative to arrange a day of fasting, during which to use only one product. It is questionable whether or not it is possible to arrange such unloading during the period of exacerbation of the disease. Many doctors assure: during an attack of gout there can be no question of any day of discharge, such nutrition will further weaken the organism and will not bring the desired therapeutic effect.
Protein is needed by the human body for any disease. Which product to choose to satisfy this need and not harm your health? Egg. You need to know: every day you can eat only one egg, otherwise the protein received by the body will cause the release of a significant part of uric acid into the blood.
Black and white bread is very helpful for gout. Seeds and nuts too. What kind of apples to give preference to gout? Experts advise choosing apples with green skins.
Seafood helps reduce the level of uric acid in the body. Squids do a great job with this task. Salad recipes, where squid are combined with various vegetables and seaweed, should be chosen carefully. Which one will fit? Only one where there are no greens, seasonings and a small amount of vegetable oil is needed.
Benefits of mineral water
Mineral water should be part of a gout sufferer's diet. The patient should drink an average of 2. 5 liters of water per day, but only if he does not have chronic kidney disease. Additionally, you can drink boiled or mineral water, as well as juices, decoctions, compotes, green tea.
If you pour rose hips or dried fruits with boiling water and let them brew in a thermos, you will get an excellent compote, in which the maximum amount of vitamins is stored. With gout, boiled water is poured over medicinal herbs to get useful infusions. What composition to choose for such an infusion, a phytotherapist will advise.
Mineral water is no less popular remedy. It differs in source location and composition. To treat 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 use only the mineral water recommended by the doctor.