Symptoms of gout.
Gout is a disease caused by a metabolic disorder, and leads to a rise in the level of uric acid in the blood, deposits in the tissues of its salts (urates). The causes of gout are completely different. Primary gout is a congenital insufficiency of enzymes that take part in the metabolic processes of uric acid, secondary gout - impaired uric acid metabolism, which are the result of another disease.
When gout is formed a large number of urates, which are deposited in tissues. In most cases, the kidneys and joints suffer. When urates penetrate the tissue, specific nodes are formed-gouty tofas.
Gout is not immediately apparent, at first, metabolic disturbances are accumulated for years before they become known in the form of a gout attack. You can detect gout in the latent stage by making a blood test: when analyzing, you will see an increased amount of urates.
A gout attack manifests itself as an acute inflammation of one joint during the crescent, then ends with a complete external recovery. But, appearing once, seizures will occur again and again, and become longer. Often they are provoked by various disorders in nutrition (abundant meat food, alcoholic excesses, etc.). After some time (depending on the diet), this process may well go into the chronic, the mobility of the altered joints, their work is disturbed. If renal changes are added to this, protein appears in the urine, blood pressure rises, and signs of pyelonephritis appear (kidney inflammation).
Nutrition for gout.
When gout is disrupted catabolism (the process of decay) of purine nucleotides. As a result, intermediate products of decomposition of uric acid and its salts accumulate.
Patients with gout should limit in their diet products that are rich in purine bases. Therefore, they should not use sardines, pate, herring, sprats, liver, kidneys, brains, broths, beans, peas, beans, lentils, nuts, chocolate, alcoholic beverages, coffee, cocoa. It is not recommended to eat meat of young animals. Fish and meat can be eaten in boiled form not more than three times a week (then you can fry or stew).
Virtually do not contain purines fruits, eggs, cereals, rice, potatoes, milk. Unloading days are shown - fruit, dairy, potato. An alkaline dairy-vegetable diet is of great importance.
Unloading days.
It is recommended to arrange days of reloading once a month, you must select certain days for this. At this time it is necessary to drink more alkaline drink - juices, plain water, slightly alkaline mineral water. After a fasting day, the metabolism begins to work with redoubled force, the patient experiences an influx of energy and strength:
- sour-milk days of unloading - kefir can be used; during the day they divide 1, 5 liters of kefir into 5-6 receptions;
- berry or fruit unloading days - they are very convenient in summer and autumn; suitable apricots, apples, bananas, cherries, cherries, strawberries, raspberries, currants, grapes, watermelons, etc.; it will be useful to use more than one kind of fruit, but several at once, add freshly squeezed juice to your diet; you can eat 1-1, 5 kg of berries or fruit in small portions, it is better to eat in the form of salads (fruits are rubbed on the grater or finely cut), flavored with orange or lemon juice;
- potato unloading diet-for all dishes, potatoes must be cooked in a uniform and then cleaned; You can eat boiled, baked potatoes, in the form of puree in milk; For a day, 5 average potatoes are eaten.
Menu for every day for gout patients.
- Breakfast: a glass of ryazhenka or kefir, a sandwich with sour cream and butter, an egg.
- The second breakfast: a banana, an orange or an apple.
- Lunch: vegetable soup, a small piece of boiled fish or chicken (no more than 3 times a week), in the remaining days - curd casserole, stewed vegetables, cheese cakes, pancakes, etc.; a glass of fresh fruit juice.
- Afternoon snack - fruit salad, seasoned with lemon juice.
- Dinner - mashed potatoes with vegetable or butter and milk, or a glass of yogurt or ryazhenka, steamed vegetables.
Gout is a metabolic disease, and therefore, in this case, the right diet is one of the types of treatment.