Acute Gout Treatment Guidelines to Help You Beat Gout Naturally
By: John Cielo
Submitted: 2010-12-05 11:50:35 | Word Count: 635
Guidelines are useful in all walks of life. When you have sensible guidelines to follow, life gets so much easier. And gout treatment guidelines are no exception. Here you'll discover some very simple gout guidelines to help you eliminate gout from your life.
The guidelines start from an understanding of what really causes your gout. Many folks know that crystals in your joints causes gout. But what they do is cause the symptoms of gout; redness, swelling, inflammation, heat, stiffness and agonizing pain. But where do the crystals come from?
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These are urate crystals that can form when you have high levels of uric acid in your body. So where do these high levels come from? First, you need to know that uric acid is present quite naturally in all of us. It is a byproduct of the metabolizing process that out bodies go through.
Normally, your kidneys process and remove excess uric acid from your body through urine. But if your kidneys aren't up to scratch for some reason, or, your body is making way too much uric acid for your kidneys to deal with, then you end up with high uric acid.
So normally your doctor would advise the use of anti-inflammatory drugs during an attack, with perhaps some uric acid reducing drugs to be taken after the attack is over. The problem with this is that the drugs don't address the underlying causes and only work whilst being taken. They can't do anything for you when they are stopped.
This is why so many more gout victims are enjoying the benefits of natural remedies for gout. And an important part of this approach is to follow simple gout treatment guidelines that recognize the effect that some underlying issues have. For example, the chemical compounds in out body (purines), that produce uric acid during the metabolizing process, also exist in our food.
Other issues are things like your weight position, general health, drugs you may be taking, family history of arthritis / gout, high blood pressure, too much alcohol, poor kidney function, even lifestyle issues.
So here are 6 acute gout treatment guidelines to help you beat gout...
1. Drink at least 3 liters of water every day to help your kidneys flush uric acid out of your body.
2. Avoid, or drastically reduce, high purine food such as red fatty meat, organ meat, game, poultry, seafood, yeast extracts, etc.
3. Eat cherries every day for their antioxidant and anti-inflammatory benefits. They also help to reduce uric acid.
4. Reduce alcohol consumption drastically, beer especially. Alcohol is a key trigger for gout.
5. If you are overweight then get down to your optimum weight. This will help to reduce uric acid and also to reduce blood pressure if you suffer from hypertension.
6. During a gout attack, don't do anything too extreme as this can make the attack even more acute. For example don't crash diet. Wait until after the attack before you begin your push to finally beat your gout.
And stopping recurring gout is essential, as it can cause you to suffer from permanently damaged joints and other things like painful kidney stones. So, as well as the simple gout treatment guidelines above, there are many other things that you need to get to know and address to help you beat your gout permanently...
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