Gout Pain Relief - 5 Easy Tips to Get Rid of Gout Pain Fast and Naturally
By: John Cielo
Submitted: 2010-06-24 03:46:31 | Word Count: 797
Fast gout pain relief is essential when you're suffering from an agonzing gout attack. You are about to discover just how to get rid of gout pain fast using 5 easy, natural remedies. And you do it from the comfort of your home.
The cause of gout are uric acid crystals in your joints and surrounding tissue. Gout is one of the very many forms of arthritis. Many times, your first awareness of an attack is in the middle of the night, when you wake up with an agonizing pain in a joint, usually the big toe. And although the big toe is the most common joint affected, gout can occur in most any joint.
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The symptoms of gout (apart from the horrible pain) are; stiffness, swelling, inflammation, heat and redness. These can often be mistaken for the symptoms of an injury by first time victims. A proper diagnosis should be sought from your doctor.
Now, not only is it vital to reduce the inflammation and reduce the horrible pain of an actual attack, it's also vital to prevent further attacks. And if this is your first gout attack, you're very likely to suffer more along the way.
Why is gout prevention so vital then? Because, frequently recurring attacks of gout down the line, can lead to permanent joint damage, kidney damage, and, high blood pressure.
Drugs are often the first line of attack by doctors to relieve the pain of gout, and, reduce inflammation. And they do this well enough. Plus, there are uric acid reducing drugs that can be prescribed to help prevent further attacks of painful gout. The downside is that they have to be taken over very long periods, perhaps years, since they are only effective whilst you are taking them.
Of course, as is the case with so many drugs, there are nasty side effects like nausea, vomiting, headaches, allergies, stomach pain, bleeding, and, ulcers. Because if this, more and more gout victims are utilizing natural remedies to help relieve pain and combat their gout.
Here are just 5 of the many natural home remedies you can use to get gout pain relief:-
(1) Drink at least 2 to 3 liters of water each day. This helps the kidneys to do their job of processing and excreting excess uric acid from your body.
(2) You should avoid all alcohol, but beer is especially bad for you in terms of gout. Alcohol is known to be a key trigger for a gout attack.
(3) Eat cherries everyday; around 20 or more. They contain natural anti-inflammatory's and antioxidant's.
(4) Use a hot and cold soak (or compress). 3 minutes hot water, 30 seconds cold water. This process helps to increase blood circulation and manage pain.
(5) Use a charcoal paste poultice. Mix a half cup of powdered activated charcoal with 3 tablespoons of ground flaxseed. Then add hot water and mix to a thickish paste. Apply over the joint and repeat every 4 hours say. To stop staining things, cover with a cloth or plastic bag.
There are tons of natural remedies out there. But, some might work well for some people, but not so well for others. To find which works for you, you need to try a range of them.
But, although you can get gout pain relief using these remedies, remember, you need to prevent recurring gout attacks. Your diet is a critical piece of the jigsaw. Being a gout sufferer, you need to avoid high purine foods (e.g. red meats, some fish, shellfish, poultry, some vegetables, etc.) and select a diet using foods that are low in purines (e.g. essential fatty acids, foods high in vitamin C, complex carbs, low fat dairy products, etc.).
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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