Diet for gout
Gout is a serious medical condition characterized by impaired protein metabolism in the human body. At the same time, the blood always contains an increased level of uric acid, urates are deposited in the tissues, and clinically the disease often manifests itself in the form of recurrent acute arthritis. This disease cannot be completely eliminated, but the frequency and duration of exacerbations can be significantly reduced. For this, it is very important to follow the correct diet.
The goal of therapeutic methods for gout is to reduce the volume of various uric acid compounds in the body. Therefore, patients are prescribed modern drugs that prevent the formation of the above-mentioned acid, as well as contribute to its effective elimination from the body.
Taking such medications is combined with a sharp reduction in purines from food. To do this, first of all, animal fats, all kinds of animal proteins and necessarily carbohydrates are removed from the patient's diet.
Content:
- Foods to avoid from your daily diet for gout
- Foods allowed in limited quantities for gout
- What do you eat for gout?
- Fasting days for gout
- Features of compiling a menu for gout
Foods to avoid from your daily diet for gout
With gout, the patient, first of all, will have to give up all kinds of smoked meats, all types of sausages, table salt, legumes. You can not eat fatty meat products, especially offal and meat of young animals, as well as fish.
It is necessary to completely abandon heavy foods such as mushrooms or lard. With gout, you should not spice up food with a variety of seasonings and hot spices. In this case, bay leaves and table vinegar are also an exception. In addition, the patient needs to give up strong alcoholic beverages, chocolate, cocoa, strong tea and coffee. Salted and spicy cheeses are also on the list of foods that contribute to the development of exacerbations of the disease. In addition, you will have to give up both rich meat soups and broths cooked on meat.
Foods allowed in limited quantities for gout
Patients with gout can dilute their menu with some products, strictly limiting the amount of their consumption. These include low-fat milk and butter. True, they can only be used as additives to the main dish, for example, to porridge. You can also use boiled poultry and fish with caution, it is better if it is trout or salmon. In moderation, you can enjoy tomatoes, cauliflower, any greens, juicy radishes and turnips. From fruits, you must be extremely careful with plums.
What do you eat for gout?
What should the menu of a patient with gout consist of? First of all, it should be rich in a variety of vegetable soups, it is also possible with cereals, sea cephalopods and crustaceans, lean fish species, rabbit meat, cereals and pasta, low-fat dairy products such as yoghurts, sour cream, and cheeses. Food without fear can be flavored with dill, black and white bread. Animal proteins should be replaced with vegetable ones.
Eggs are allowed, but no more than one per day. The menu can be replenished with any vegetables, except those that are prohibited. And also green apples, any berries except raspberries, oranges, tangerines. Dried fruits are very useful, with the exception of raisins, as well as honey, nuts, seeds. From sweets, you can enjoy marshmallows, marmalade and jam. Food can be cooked in both butter and vegetable oil, but refractory fats, such as pork or lamb, should be completely abandoned.
As for drinking, you need to give preference to green tea, tea with milk or lemon, juices, any decoction of useful plants. In addition, you can drink fruit drinks, kvass, compotes from various fruits and berries. Useful of specialized mineral water and fresh cucumber juice.
Fasting days for gout
It must be remembered that with gout, it is recommended to carry out periodic fasting days. At the same time, you can eat only one type of vegetables all day, for example, limit yourself to potatoes or green apples. If it is difficult to eat only one product during the day, then you can mix several types of vegetables or fruits and eat them in the form of salads. You can also choose a dairy, kefir or cottage cheese diet. At the same time, various aspects of the metabolic process are unloaded, which is very important for patients with gout.
For fasting days, you can use the rice-apple diet. To do this, boil 75 grams of rice in milk and take it in small portions. In between, you can eat apples, both raw and in the form of compote. By the way, their number should not exceed 250 grams. And when preparing compote, you must completely abandon sugar.
It should be noted that although patients are recommended to carry out contrasting fasting days, completely hungry days are strictly prohibited. Also, you can not arrange courses of medical fasting, because due to the complete cessation of food intake into the body, uric acid is sharply added to the blood. As a result, a gout attack begins.
Features of compiling a menu for gout
For patients with gout, the following daily diet option can be recommended. Breakfast should always consist of vegetable salad, delicious carrot and apple pudding, one soft-boiled egg, weak tea. For the second breakfast, you can prepare an unsweetened rosehip compote. Lunch should be made from milk soup with pasta, simple potato pancakes, jelly. Fresh apples can be eaten as an afternoon snack. And for dinner you can enjoy cheesecakes, cabbage rolls without meat, drink weak tea. Before going to bed, drink a decoction made using wheat bran.
It should be emphasized that the diet for gout has a peculiar structure. It should be dominated by liquid and semi-liquid food in the form of vegetable soups, mineral waters, any compotes and fruit drinks, fresh juices and jelly, fruits and vegetables. In general, you need to drink 2-3 liters of liquid per day. And during fasting days, you can eat up to 2 kg of any vegetables.
When composing a menu for a gout patient, it is important to take into account the presence of other chronic diseases. So, for example, if a patient has high cholesterol, then he should not eat yolk at all, and if he suffers from diabetes mellitus, then flour and bakery products should be taken in limited quantities, and sugar and sweets should be completely excluded.
Gout is often associated with obesity. In such cases, a special diet is prescribed, called diet # 8 by medical professionals. It largely excludes the consumption of meat and fish and implies frequent fasting days, up to four times a week. In general, weight loss is recommended for patients with gout, since the risk of frequent attacks increases due to high weight. But at the same time, weight loss should not be too sharp, it should occur smoothly and imperceptibly.
And of course, with gout, you need to remember that the success of treatment depends on its complexity. Therefore, one should not be limited to one diet, even if it is selected correctly, taking into account all the characteristics of the body. You can recommend using various physiotherapy procedures, and you can also do physical therapy, which is very important for strengthening the body. True, before that, you need to discuss this with your doctor.
However, such procedures are prohibited if the patient has a period of exacerbation of the disease. At such times, physical rest is recommended, the use of warm warming baths and compresses, warmth. Walking on the street has a beneficial effect on the body, in particular before eating, or immediately after taking.
And of course, you should always keep in mind that gout can be controlled if you start paying attention to your health in time. Timely consultations with a doctor, modern drug and physiotherapy treatment, the right diet - and you will forget about your illness for many years, you will be able to lead a full, absolutely normal life.
The author of the article: Kuzmina Vera Valerievna | Endocrinologist, nutritionist
Education: Diploma of the Russian State Medical University named after NI Pirogov with a degree in General Medicine (2004). Residency at Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry, diploma in Endocrinology (2006).
