By: John Cielo
Submitted: 2010-06-30 15:58:22 | Word Count: 747
High uric acid leads to excruciating gout, so understanding the causes of high uric acid levels in your blood can help you make a decision on your treatment. You'll find the causes here. But one of the key factors in gout treatment is the prevention of recurring gout. So you'll also discover why you need to prevent this, and, the pro's and con's of drug-based and natural home-based remedies.
Causes of High Uric Acid
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The actual causes of high uric acid levels are chemical compounds in your body and in your food that are called purines. These are essential because they are vital in the process that converts your food to the energy you need, and, converts your genes into the protein which you also need. Now these descriptions aren't meant to be scientific descriptions, but are only used to help you understand the basics.
As part of these processes the purines actually breakdown and one of the outcomes is uric acid which then circulates in your blood. Your kidneys take in this uric acid, process it, then expel the waste uric acid out through your bladder and urine. Low levels of uric acid are left in the blood and act as beneficial antioxidants.
However, in the circumstances where your kidneys aren't working efficiently, or, there are too many purines producing too much uric acid, then not enough acid is being expelled and the excess builds-up in your blood. This excess can then cluster in the form of micro-sharp crystals in and around your joints, thus causing your excruciating gout.
Drug-based Treatment Overview
Your doctor will generally recommend and prescribe anti-inflammatory drugs (e.g. NSAIDs, colchicines, corticosteroids, etc.), plus painkillers perhaps, to deal with the symptoms of your gout attack. And since high uric acid levels in your blood are the direct cause of your gout, they may also prescribe acid-reducing drugs like allopurinol. These drugs do work...
But the anti-inflammatory drugs and pain killers only address the symptoms of an actual gout attack, they don't address the long term issue of your uric acid levels. And the acid reducing drugs, themselves, don't address the underlying causes for your high uric acid. They only work to reduce the levels while you are taking them. Once you come off them, there's nothing to stop the levels rising again, unless YOU take action.
And, like any drug, they have some pretty serious side effects, such as; headaches, nausea, diarrhea, stomach cramps, stomach ulcers, and bleeding.
Because of the above drawbacks with mainstream treatments, plus their cost, gout sufferers are increasingly utilizing the benefits of natural treatments to address their condition....
Natural Remedies Overview
There is a whole range of natural treatments that are now widely being used, such as kidney cleanses, the widespread use of herbs, detoxing, selected fruits and vegetables, natural supplements, etc. In combination with some dietary and lifestyle changes (very important!), these are proving to be very effective. Especially since they address not just the symptoms of gout, but also, the issue of managing and preventing your gout returning.
Why You Need to Prevent Recurring Gout
And preventing your gout returning time and time again is critical, because frequent gout attacks can leave you with permanently damaged joints, kidney stones, and even, damaged kidneys. Plus, you need to be aware that once you have had your first gout attack, you are then odds-on to keep having them. So prevention is critical...
You're in luck though. You don't have to research all this yourself. There's a uric acid gout report available online [see below] that 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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