By: John Cielo
Submitted: 2010-04-20 03:28:29 | Word Count: 639
You can remove gout by using natural remedies instead of drugs. Here, you'll discover some simple tips on how to remove gout and prevent it recurring.
Drug-based treatment to remove gout can be very effective. Things like colchicines, NSAIDs, and corticosteroids are commonly prescribed to eliminate the symptoms of a gout attack. And the likes of probenecid and allopurinol are used to reduce uric acid levels to prevent recurring gout.
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But their nasty side effects, e.g. stomach pain, bleeding, ulcers, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, skin allergies, etc. make them unsuitable for some people. Others, who don't have bad reactions to the drugs, simply don't like the idea of taking drugs.
Whatever their reasons, more and more people with gout are enjoying the benefits of natural remedies to remove gout from their lives. Like drugs, there are remedies that can reduce inflammation and remove pain, whilst there are others that can lower the high uric acid levels that produce the crystals in the joints that cause gout.
An important natural approach is through your diet. Uric acid is produced when chemical compounds called purines breakdown in our body cells. But purines exist at varying concentrations in our foods too.
So the more high-purine food you consume the more uric acid you produce. Now, for a gout sufferer, this doesn't make any sense at all. Because someone with gout has to reduce their uric acid to healthier levels and maintain them there, to prevent recurring gout attacks.
This is important because if you have many regular attacks, over time this can lead to kidney problems such as horrendous kidney stones and also permanent joint damage. And, if this is your first attack, you should realise that you are very likely to have repeat attacks.
So you have two objectives; remove gout symptoms of an attack, plus, prevent further gout attacks.
(A) - To remove gout symptoms naturally, here are 3 simple tips:-
(1) - Drink at least 12 x eight ounce glasses of water per day. This helps to prevent uric acid crystals forming, and, helps your kidneys remove uric acid from your body.
(2) - Eat 30 to 40 cherries x 3 times a day during an attack. They have natural antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties.
(3) - Take bromelain supplements. Bromelain (extracted from the stem of the pineapple plant) acts like NSAIDs (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs) and so helps reduce inflammation and pain.
(B) - And to reduce and maintain uric acid at low levels, you need to change to a low-purine diet:-
This means avoiding high purine foods such as red fatty meats, organ meat, most fish, shellfish, poultry, yeast, yeast extracts and dried legumes. And alcohol; you must avoid alcohol, especially beer.
Unfortunately, there isn't room to list all the individual foods here, or, all of the other natural remedies there are to remove gout.
You're in luck though. There's a special gout report available online [see below] that has all the information you need in one place. It is what thousands of ex-gout victims worldwide have successfully used to prevent their gout returning. It also contains a special 2 hour gout pain relief program.
And it uses fully-researched, totally natural methods. So that you benefit two ways: (1) you get rid of your excruciating pain very fast, and, (2) you prevent your gout returning, so that you reduce the risk of permanent damage.
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