kiwihelen70
He needs to drink plenty of fluids, his urine needs to be light or clear all the time except for first thing in the morning.
It may help to avoid foods containing purines.
http://arthritis.about.com/cs/goutdiet/a/goutpurines.htm
MyLadyJ
My husband was also diagnosed with Gout a few months ago. It was his third flare up.
Although his Uric Acid level wasn't that high, the doctor decided to treat him with Indomethacin 50 MG Capsule MYL. Each day it got a little better. He still has some problems but the medicine definitely helped,
Good luck!
onlymatch4u
Between two and five million Americans suffer from gout, a type of arthritis that causes stiff, swollen and painful joints. It occurs when your uric acid levels build up in your blood. Although gout is commonly blamed on eating high-purine foods such as organ meats, there is clearly another dietary culprit: high fructose corn syrup (HFCS).
Gout is an arthritic type of pain in your joints; typically, about 75 percent of people will experience it as an excruciating pain in their big toe.
The symptoms of gout -- the stiff, swollen and painful joints -- are due to excess uric acid forming crystals in your joints, and the pain is caused by your body's inflammatory response to these crystals.
Elevated uric acid is related to a variety of other health conditions, including: diabetes, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, kidney and heart disease. Many people suffering from gout end up taking some type of pain reducing medication, typically an anti-inflammatory. Drugs like Allopurinol and Cholchicine work by either lowering your uric acid levels, which decrease crystal formation, or by simply blocking your body's natural inflammatory response, but these drugs also have very dangerous, long-term side effects, and gout is frequently a lifelong condition, so you may end up staying on these drugs for very long periods of time, which can wreak havoc with your health.
The best thing is to change your diet and reduce inflammation naturally. Any time you talk about reducing inflammation, please remember that your diet is your number one priority.
The real underlying problem causing the inflammation, and subsequent damage, is likely due to having chronically elevated blood sugar. And, your number one way of normalizing your blood sugar and insulin levels is through your diet. I have a blood sugar handling diet that can be very useful in this process.
There is no one diet that is right for everyone. Go through a nutritional metabolic typing diet to find out which type of diet is right for you, based on your personal biochemistry and metabolism. Some people thrive on a high carb-low fat/low protein diet. Others need more fat and protein, and far less carbs. Others may fall somewhere in between.
However, regardless of your nutritional type, drastically reducing or eliminating sugar is essential if you're dealing with gout, or any other condition caused by inflammation in your body.
Recent research shows you can lower your risk of gout by an impressive 85 percent, simply by reducing your intake of sugar. What this means for most people is: eliminate the soft drinks and fruit juices.
The number one source for empty, low density carbs in America is high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) in the form of soda. Instead, drink plenty of pure water, as the fluids will help to remove uric acid from your body. Another important diet modification is to reduce or eliminate alcohol, as it is clearly a risk factor in gout.
Exercise, just like optimizing your vitamin D levels, is an all-around health booster that helps improve your health no matter what your problem is. In this case, exercise helps normalize your insulin and hence your uric acid levels, naturally.
Recent research links gout to infection not previously found in typical lab tests therefore, it's advisable to use anti-infective nuritional formulas to combat this malady.
Weak kidneys, toxic liver and gallbladder, intestinal infection(s) cause back up of toxins into the liver, toxic dental infections due to typical dental materials is a very common contributor to gout. Eating foods like tart cherries that contain anthocyanins and bioflavanoids can be very helpful.
E-mail me if you want some additional advise and protocol for supplements and cleansing techniques to clean the liver and gallbladder that is necessary for helping this condition.
good luck to you
JeffKan1
I'm a male, 45, and have had gout attacks for the past 10 years. So I've been doing battle with it for a long time. Also my uric acid level has been in an acceptable range same as your hub, right after I had an attack. I think the deal is that the uric acid level in the blood is not a necessary indicator of whether you'll have a gout attack. Uric acid can crystallize in a joint such as a knee or a big toe even when uric acid levels are considered "normal". Perhaps medical science doesn't know yet what a "normal" level is, who knows.
Over the years I've take the Indocin, ibuprofen as a preventative, an herbal pill from goutcure.com, colchicine, and allopurinol. The pain from gout is huge, so you'll do about anything to relieve the pain. You can't walk, you can't put on socks or shoes or pants without excruciating pain. You can't sit with your leg bent, you can't take the weight of a bed sheet resting on a big toe that has gout.
Here's what I've learned: to keep gout from coming back, and to give yourself relief during a gout attack, you must do two things. One, take anti-inflammatories to relieve the pain. Two, do something to help your body get rid of the uric acid. This might be taking allopurinol, or drinking lots and lots of water, or taking colchicine, or eating foods that both help your body to get rid of uric acid AND don't add to the uric acid (foods with purines).
You MUST do both of these things. Just taking anti-inflammatories such as Indocin may help the pain some, but your body will still have trouble getting rid of the uric acid. Just taking colchicine or allopurinol or changing your diet will help in the long run, but it doesn't help with the inflammation in a day or two.
Here's my current status: I plan to do my first 8-day bicycle ride this June. I'll be staying in a tent some nights, and will average 50 miles per day. I will not be able to do these things if I have a gout attack. So here's what I do daily.
I take the herbal pills from goutcure.com, which by the way won't "cure" your gout, but I feel they do help. The bottle says "Gout Care", it's a marketing thing, blah blah blah. I take one of those with some orange juice each morning.
I also take allopurinol. My doctor of 9 yrs ago told me the same thing as an answer above said, which is that allopurinol is really bad for your health. I did recent research all over the internet, and I didn't find anything that said allopurinol is bad for your health. If I have a 3% chance of developing some bad disease because I took allopurinol for 40 yrs... oh well. It's worth it so far! I've been on allopurinol about 6 weeks. By the way, you probably know that Indocin is fairly expensive. 30 pills of allopurinol cost me $ 0.65 at my pharmacy.
Next, daily I try to eat foods that help with gout along with foods that don't. So I might eat some steak, a cinnamon roll, and some green beans. Those are all apparently bad or very bad. During the day I will be sure and eat some cottage cheese, sour cream, veggies like corn, and lots of water. "Lots" meaning 1 oz of water for every 2 lbs of my body weight.
For high fructose corn syrup... listen, too much of anything is bad. If you pay attention to ingredient labels, you'd be very surprised how many things you eat during the day that have HFCS in the top 4 ingredients. You'll hear this from many experts in the field of exercise, medicine, etc: "if man made it, don't eat it". Another good one I heard the other day: "if it didn't have a mother or it didn't come out of the ground, don't eat it". Those commericals recently on TV that say "hey, HFCS is fine... it's made from corn... you can enjoy it in moderation". Sure, you bet, we'll enjoy it in moderation when it's in hundreds of products and tells our body we are still hungry after eating it.
If I think about all the foods that I love... potato chips, crackers, bread, breakfast cereal, pasta, "juices" that are not 100% juice, beer, barbecue sauce... those are all man made, or processed to the point where your body hardly recognizes it as food.
In closing, your hub will need to do what works for him. It might be any combination of prayer, exercise, drugs, diet, drinking water, internet research... whatever works for him. But for me, anti-inflammatories, allopurinol, Gout Care herbal pills, and watching my diet. I'll throw in exercise too. :o)
Best of luck to him and you!
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