How To Manage Your Gout? Altering your diet can go a long way!
Friday, September 30, 2011
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Prophylaxis and/or diet and life style management
At the outset it should be clearly established that pain is positively due to gout and not pseudo gout. Pseudo gout is not due to accumulation of Uric acid but calcium phosphate and therefore the line of treatment is very different.
Since gout is caused by Hyperuricemia, (high levels of uric acid) in the body, the first thing is to limit or avoid foods which catabolise and yield uric acid. Purine containing foods (Purines and pyramidines are important parts of the nucleotides - DNA & RNA) lead to increased uric acid accumulation and are found in high amounts in all meat and meat products.
Diet Modifications
FOODS TO AVOID -
- Avoid high fat foods such as salad dressings, ice creams, and fried foods.
- Avoid or at least reduce consumption of animal protein (meat, poultry and fish). Purines are the major culprits in increasing uric acid content of blood so it is very important to avoid meats* especially organ meats (liver, kidney and sweet breads), herring, anchovies and mackerel etc. A moderate amount of purines is also found in beef, pork, poultry, other fish and seafood. It is therefore advisable to restrict intake of all meat, poultry and fish to a maximum of 4-6 ounces per day.
(Normally, sea food is recommended as a healthy non veg protein due to its omega 3 content, however studies have shown that there is a strong, indisputable link between seafood and gout so sea food is avoided)
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