Gout Treatment - Cherries and Gout Goes Out The Door!
By: John Cielo
Submitted: 2011-01-17 05:42:03 | Word Count: 499
There are two main types of gout treatment: drug-based and natural home remedies. Drug-based gout treatment you usually get prescribed by your doctor to relieve pain and inflammation, plus, drugs to help reduce uric acid levels in the blood.
As an alternative, there are natural gout treatments that you can use that don't have the side effects of drugs but can be very effective in eliminating the symptoms of a gout attack and helping to keep gout at bay.
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Problems With Drug Gout Treatment
The basic problems with drugs for gout is that they can have horrible side effects, and, they don't address the root cause(s) of gout; diet, lifestyle, weight, some medications, underlying medical conditions, family history etc. So that although they can help the symptoms they can't prevent gout once you come off them.
Benefits of Natural Gout Treatment
Natural gout treatment can be very effective in both reducing gout symptoms and preventing gout attacks from occurring in the first place. Now, there are lots and lots of natural gout remedies you can try. And some work better than others. You just need to discover which is the best natural gout treatment regimen for you.
To help you on your way, here is a very popular home remedy for gout that many sufferers have found to be very effective...
Natural Gout Treatment - Cherries and Cherry Juice
Cherries are known to have antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties and are also known to be able to reduce uric acid levels in the blood. This makes them one of the most popular and effective gout home remedies.
During a gout attack eat between 30 to 40 cherries every 4 hours or so until your symptoms have abated. In between attacks you can eat 30 to 40 cherries every day for maintenance.
You can also take cherries in the form of natural cherry juice. Note that this isn't the juice you find in a can of cherries from the supermarket. This juice you get from health food stores. You can also get the juice in concentrated form. Ask the owner about dosage.
Even although cherries are great for both reducing the symptoms of gout during an attack and lowering uric acid to help prevent gout, they aren't enough on their own to truly prevent you suffering recurrent gout attacks.
And you definitely have to prevent these ongoing attacks as they can eventually cause permanent joint damage, kidney problems and hypertension. And because you've already had at least one gout attack, you're now extremely likely to have more...
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