Gout Treatment - How To Stop This Throbbing Pain Now
The 2 main objectives with your gout treatment are to stop the intense pain right now from the gout attack you're having and to prevent future gout attacks.
To help relieve your pain start by elevating the painful joints.
Try to keep them elevated as much as possible.
Rest the affected joint.
Once the pain goes away keep resting them for another 24 hours.
There are many pain medications you can take.
NSAIDS are effective for pain,swelling and inflammation.
The most well known are Advil and Motrin.
The drawback with these are that they have the potential to lead to stomach ulcers.
Don't take aspirin though.
Aspirin can cause changes in your uric acid levels and could actually make the pain worse.
I know that once an attack is over, and the pain has gone away we tend to go back to our normal routine.
But to avoid this terrible pain in the future you have to adjust some things because gout treatment is really an ongoing thing.
Your diet is the most important thing to adjust.
There are gout diet foods as well as foods to avoid with gout.
Foods to avoid with gout are those that are high in purine.
It is important to know that purines are found in all protein foods.
This is a substance that causes our bodies to produce uric acid.
Uric acid crystals is what forms in the tissue around the joint that causes thatintense pain.
Foods that are high in purine include beer and other alcohol, herring, anchovies, organ meat like liver, meat extracts, mushrooms, spinach, asparagus and cauliflower.
There are some foods that contain a high level of purine but aren't considered to raise the risk of gout.
It's easy to say don't eat this or that.
It's harder to say what foods can help avoid gout attacks.
Gout foods should be high in complex carohydrates like whole grains, fruits and vegetables.
They should be low in protein and low in fats, especially animal fats.
Foods that are recommended as being beneficial for gout treatment include dark berries.
Cherries, strawberries and blueberries.
Bananas, celery, tomatoes are also recommended.
Foods that are high in vitamin C like oranges and mandarins.
Dairy products should be low-fat.
Tofu, which is made from soybeans is a better choice than meat.
To help relieve your pain start by elevating the painful joints.
Try to keep them elevated as much as possible.
Rest the affected joint.
Once the pain goes away keep resting them for another 24 hours.
There are many pain medications you can take.
NSAIDS are effective for pain,swelling and inflammation.
The most well known are Advil and Motrin.
The drawback with these are that they have the potential to lead to stomach ulcers.
Don't take aspirin though.
Aspirin can cause changes in your uric acid levels and could actually make the pain worse.
I know that once an attack is over, and the pain has gone away we tend to go back to our normal routine.
But to avoid this terrible pain in the future you have to adjust some things because gout treatment is really an ongoing thing.
Your diet is the most important thing to adjust.
There are gout diet foods as well as foods to avoid with gout.
Foods to avoid with gout are those that are high in purine.
It is important to know that purines are found in all protein foods.
This is a substance that causes our bodies to produce uric acid.
Uric acid crystals is what forms in the tissue around the joint that causes thatintense pain.
Foods that are high in purine include beer and other alcohol, herring, anchovies, organ meat like liver, meat extracts, mushrooms, spinach, asparagus and cauliflower.
There are some foods that contain a high level of purine but aren't considered to raise the risk of gout.
It's easy to say don't eat this or that.
It's harder to say what foods can help avoid gout attacks.
Gout foods should be high in complex carohydrates like whole grains, fruits and vegetables.
They should be low in protein and low in fats, especially animal fats.
Foods that are recommended as being beneficial for gout treatment include dark berries.
Cherries, strawberries and blueberries.
Bananas, celery, tomatoes are also recommended.
Foods that are high in vitamin C like oranges and mandarins.
Dairy products should be low-fat.
Tofu, which is made from soybeans is a better choice than meat.