Consuming healthy food for the body in the necessary quantities is the basis for the prevention of various diseases. Improper 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 the forbidden foods from his diet, this can cause an aggravation and acceleration of the destructive processes in the joints.
What foods can you eat? How to correctly design a menu for gout? Before answering these questions, you should understand what absolutely cannot be eaten with gout and arthritis. Treatment of this disease is a long process. The priorities of therapy are to relieve 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 hurry to exclude them from their diet. But this is what can cause the progression of the disease.
So, with this disease, it is absolutely impossible to use:
- beans;
- alcohol;
- spices (except vinegar and bay leaves);
- peas;
- beans;
- mushrooms;
- Salo.
As statistics show, gout exacerbations 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 every patient respects this rule. Alcohol, like fatty foods, delays the removal of uric acid salts and their deposits from the body.
With gout, the body weakens, while alcohol practically leaves no chance to resist the disease. Alcohol, even in very small amounts, can provoke a sudden attack of gout. Moreover, the symptoms of pain in this case will last much longer and appear 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 the drug. 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 spice to choose? Just bay leaves 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 juices are capable of provoking complications. Any excessive food 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 can be consumed by the patient is further reduced. It is also necessary to know that the recipes for the dishes that prepare the gout should in no case include the frying of the ingredients.
What is good to eat with gout
Food for gout depends not only on the stage of the course of the disease, but also on accompanying diseases. A rheumatologist, gastroenterologist and nutritionist will give the most accurate answer to the question of how to properly design a menu and what nutritional scheme to choose. There are products for gout that are allowed to be consumed, but in limited quantities.
The following foods are beneficial for gout:
- any vegetable (except with spices and cauliflower);
- greens (except sorrel, spinach, celery);
- various fruits (especially citrus fruits);
- milk products and low-fat milk;
- 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, 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. With the worsening of gout, 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 some disorders in the functioning of the gastrointestinal tract, a large number of these vegetables will provoke an aggravation of stomach diseases. Recipes for dishes that require a lot of greens for cooking should be excluded for patients with gout. However, all types of fennel can be consumed.
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? With an exacerbation of the disease, milk and butter cannot be eaten. In the remission phase, they are allowed as an addition to beneficial products. Kashi 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, porridge is 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 necessary to organize a fasting day, during which you use only one product. It is debatable whether or not it is possible to organize such a discharge during the period of aggravation of the disease. Many doctors assure: during a gout attack, there can be no question of any discharge day, such food will further weaken the body and will not bring the desired therapeutic effect.
Proteins are required by the human body for every disease. Which product should you choose to meet this need and not harm your health? Eggs. You should know: every day you can eat only one egg, otherwise the protein taken from the body will provoke the release of a significant amount of uric acid into the blood.
Black and white bread are very useful for gout. Seeds and nuts too. What kind of apples to give preference to gout? Experts advise to choose those apples whose peel is green.
Seafood helps reduce the level of uric acid in the body. Squids do an excellent 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 is required where there are no greens, spices and a small amount of vegetable oil.
The benefits of mineral water
Mineral water should 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 boiled or mineral water, and juices, stews, 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 a maximum of vitamins are preserved. With gout, boiled water is poured over medicinal herbs to obtain useful infusions. What composition to choose for such an infusion, a phytotherapist will recommend.
Mineral water is no less popular medicine. It differs in the location of the source and composition. To treat gout, you should 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.