Consuming food that is healthy for the body in the necessary quantities is the basis of the prevention of various diseases. Improper nutrition in gout is one of the leading causes of its complications, which is recognized by doctors and patients themselves. If the patient does not exclude forbidden foods from his diet, this can lead to exacerbation and acceleration of destructive processes in the joints.
What foods can you eat? How to correctly make a menu for gout? Before answering these questions, you need to understand what absolutely cannot be eaten with gout and arthritis. Treatment of this disease is quite a long process. The priorities of therapy are to eliminate pain and relieve 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 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;
- lard.
As statistics show, exacerbations of gout often begin when the patient begins to eat incorrectly, allowing himself to eat fatty fish, meat, lard. It is strictly forbidden to drink alcohol with gout, but not every patient follows this rule. Alcohol, like fatty foods, slows down the release of uric acid salts and their deposits from the body.
With gout, the body is weakened, while alcohol practically leaves no chance to resist the disease. Alcohol, even in very small amounts, can trigger a sudden gout attack. In addition, the symptoms of pain in this case will last much longer and will manifest themselves more strongly. At the same time, the drugs will not be able to effectively extinguish them, since the alcohol in the human body will interfere with the effects of the 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 humans. But people with gout should not eat them. What spices can be used in the preparation of diet food? Which spice to choose? Just bay leaf and vinegar. If gout appears 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 sprats? Expect a gout flare-up. Salty and spicy cheeses can also make it worse. Legumes, coffee, tea, beer, meat broths are capable of provoking complications. Any overeating with gout is fraught with the fact that it can provoke an attack, which, if the diet is disturbed, will be aggravated by additional 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 the ingredients.
What is good to eat for gout
Nutrition for gout depends not only on the stage of the course of the disease, but also on the concomitant diseases. To the question of how to properly make a menu and what kind of diet to choose, the most accurate answer will be given by a rheumatologist, gastroenterologist and nutritionist. There are gout products that are allowed to be consumed, but only in limited quantities.
The following foods are good 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 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 to be included in the diet for joint diseases. Pumpkin, like tomatoes, improves digestion, helps remove uric acid deposits from the body. When gout is aggravated, pumpkin and tomatoes are not excluded from the diet.
It is generally accepted that people suffering from gout should not limit their consumption 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 to cook should be excluded from patients with gout. However, all types of fennel can be eaten.
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 correctly? In case of exacerbation of the disease, you cannot eat milk and butter. In the stage of remission, they are allowed as an addition to useful products. Porridge is the basis of proper nutrition for people suffering from gout. Recipes for these dishes include the addition of butter or milk. During an 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 diversifies the patient's menu. Once a week, it is mandatory to organize a fasting day during which you use only one product. It is debatable whether or not it is possible to organize such unloading during the period of exacerbation of the disease. Many doctors assure: during a gout attack, there can be no question of an unloading day, such a meal will further weaken the body and will not bring the desired therapeutic effect.
Proteins are needed by the human body for every disease. What product to choose to satisfy this need and not harm your health? An egg. You should know: every day you can eat only one egg, otherwise the protein received by the body will provoke 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. What apples to give preference to gout? Experts advise to choose those apples whose skin is green.
Seafood helps reduce the level of uric acid in the body. Squid copes with this task perfectly. Salad recipes where squid are combined with various vegetables and seaweed should be chosen carefully. Which one will fit? Only those without vegetables, spices and a small amount of vegetable oil are needed.
The benefits of mineral water
Mineral water should be present 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 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 boil in a thermos, you will get an excellent compote in which maximum vitamins are stored. For gout, medicinal herbs are poured with boiled water to obtain useful infusions. What composition to choose for such an infusion, a phytotherapist will recommend.
Mineral water is no less popular medicine. Differs in source location and composition. To treat gout, you should drink slightly alkaline water. The container 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.