Symptoms of High Uric Acid - What to Look For and How to Treat Them
By: John Cielo
Submitted: 2010-06-30 03:27:11 | Word Count: 605
The symptoms of high uric acid may only become apparent when you have a gout attack. This is because high uric acid levels in your blood can cause gout. Here, you'll learn what to look for, and, how to treat these high levels using natural remedies, combined with some dietary changes.
The symptoms of high uric acid may not become apparent until you have a gout attack, since gout is caused by high uric acid collecting in your joints in crystal form. Blood and urine tests can then confirm the levels of uric acid present.
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So the symptoms of high uric acid will be the symptoms of gout; redness, swelling, heat, stiffness, inflammation and terrible pain. The majority of time these symptoms occur in the big toe, but they can occur almost anywhere; ankle, knee, elbow, fingers, etc. Often the outside ridge of the foot can be affected.
The pain is so bad that you need to get pain relief as fast as possible of course. But, as well as getting over your gout attack, you need to make sure you do everything you can to prevent others. Recurring gout attacks can end up in you having permanently damaged joints and even damaged kidneys.
Your drug-based medication options can do both very effectively. But they can have some bad side effects for many people, like headaches, nausea, vomiting, stomach cramps, bleeding and stomach ulcers. Also, they only work while you take them. Once you come off them there isn't anything to prevent your symptoms of high uric acid returning.
So people, more and more, are utilizing the beneficial properties of home-based natural remedies to fight gout, and, prevent further gout attacks. There are so many different ways such as using herbs, specific fruits and vegetables, natural supplements, detoxing, kidney cleansing, etc.
When these are used in conjunction with things like dietary and lifestyle adjustments they can be very effective.
For example, overweight people have a higher chance of gout. And people on high purine diets (the typical Western diet) are generally more prone to high uric acid and therefore gout. This is because uric acid is produced in your body by the breakdown of purines, which are chemical compounds in our bodies and food.
So you can see why diet will play such an important role in your fight against gout. Gout sufferers need to change to a well-balanced lower purine diet. This means avoiding high-purine foods such as red meat, gravies, offal, some types of fish, shellfish, most poultry, yeast products, lentils, some beans and peas, etc. And you must avoid alcohol, especially beer.
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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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