By: John Cielo
Submitted: 2010-07-08 11:52:20 | Word Count: 496
There are many natural remedies to help you get rid of uric acid symptoms. Here, you'll learn why people are turning to these rather than drugs to eliminate gout caused by high uric acid.
High acid symptoms are; redness, swelling, stiffness, inflammation and agonizing pain in and around a joint, i.e. gout symptoms. Usually, this is in the big toe, but gout can occur in any joint. It happens because high uric acid levels in your blood lead to crystal formation in the joints and surrounding tissue.
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High acid levels usually occur when your kidneys aren't able to process and flush-out excess acid effectively enough. This can happen either because there is a problem with your kidneys, or, your body is producing far too much acid for your kidneys to manage.
Uric acid is actually formed when 'purines' in your body's cells and in your food breakdown as part of the normal metabolizing process in your body. The thing to remember is that purines also exist in the food you eat, so you diet is an extremely important factor in your fight against gout.
As a gout sufferer, you must reduce your acid levels to get rid of gout, and also, maintain your acid at healthier, lower levels in order to prevent recurring gout from causing long term joint and kidney damage. And remember that once having suffered a gout attack, you're now far more likely to have recurring gout.
Drugs are the normal treatments handed out by doctors, but they only act on the symptoms, i.e. reducing inflammation and relieving pain. There are other drugs that can help reduce uric acid -- for example allopurinol -- but these need to be taken long term, because they only work as long as you are taking them. They can't 'cure' gout. Plus, of course, they nearly all have pretty nasty side effects.
Which is why more sufferers are using home remedies for gout. There are many natural remedies that can reduce inflammation and relieve pain. And there are other natural remedies that can lower uric acid, and because they are natural, you can take these to help maintain low uric acid and help prevent recurring gout.
Typical home remedies for gout are things like; fruits (e.g. cherries, strawberries, blueberries, etc.), vegetables (garlic, celery and other green-leafy vegetables), herbs (e.g. alfalfa, billberry, saffron, etc.), natural supplements (e.g. vitamin B complex, C, E, minerals, etc.), homeopathic remedies, and so on. And diet. Your diet is one of the most critical triggers for high uric acid symptoms of gout.
