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Gout Remedies Will Prevent Attacks And Protect Your Health
Gout remedies of the traditional type tend to have serious side effects. It is for this reason that I strongly recommend natural gout remedies.
For instance the side effects of Prednisone include headaches, stomach irritation, insomnia, with long term use causing weight gain, bulging eyes, fluid retention. osteoporosis, loss of muscle and stretch marks.
Even medical practitioners agree that natural gout treatments should be chosen as they not only have no side effects but they also have ingredients which improve the overall health of the body.
Gout Remedies Include Lifestyle Changes
Is Your Weight Correct For Your Age,Height And Gender?
Obesity is a contributory factor in gout attacks. Obesity is defined as a Body Mass Index (BMI)of more than 30kg/m2. An overweight person is four times more likely to get gout than a non-obese person. You should therefore do your best to maintain a healthy weight.
However, never try to make sudden and drastic weight changes. Eating healthy and regular exercise are the recommended ways of losing weight. In other words less consumption of meat and fat and more activity is the way to healing.
We should all be watchful regarding the amount of fructose which we consume, since this has been found to increase uric acid which leads to symptoms of gout. The prevalence of Fructose in corn syrup in many food products must be taken into consideration in the new lifestyle to counter gout.
Water is critical to the treatment of gout. It is also the best and cheapest gout treatment. Dehydration raises the concentration of uric acid in the body. Water therefore helps the kidneys to flush out excess uric acid and thus prevent crystal formation which causes gout symptoms.
The amount of water recommended may seem like a lot, and it does take some getting used to but work at it. It is worth it just to stop an attack!
Milk and orange juice and non caffeine teas can be counted as liquid intake also. Drink lots of fluids but be sure not to include alcohol in any form.
Shun Alcohol
It has been shown that for persons who are not regular drinkers of alcohol, the ingestion of a glass of alcohol has little or no effect on the concentration of uric acid.
However this was not the case with those who drank regularly. In their case, uric acid levels rose sharply. The findings seem to suggest that those who suffer from gout should abstain from alcohol
Why Is Potassium One Of The Best Gout Remedies?
Remember we talked about drinking lots of fluid in order to dissolve and flush out uric acid from the body? Well, uric acidbecomes more readily able to be flushed out if the pH ratio of your body is more alkaline than acidic.
Drinking more water helps to raise your pH ratio since water has a pH of 7.0.Normal urine pH ratio is around 5.8 -6.8.The higher the pH ratio the more uric acid will be dissolved.
It is a good idea to test your pH ratio by using test strips or litmus paper on your saliva or your urine, both being better.Potassium raises the pH so that the uric acid and the acid crystals are more easily flushed out of your body.
It is better to use foods, particularly fruits, which are high in potassium rather than potassium supplements.
Foods high in potassium include dried peaches, avocados, cantaloupe, oranges, bananas, tomatoes and dried prunes.
Potassium citrate is excellent but it must be used under the supervision of your health care professional.
The malic acid in apples neutralizes the uric acid which is behind gout attacks.
It is recommended that one apple after meals be taken. Apple cider vinegar (with the mother) is reported to ease the pain of gout. Bragg Apple Cider Vinegar is one of the best.
Cherries Are Incredible!
It has been long known that cherries reduce inflammation. However numerous personal testimonies and several scientific studies have now confirmed what your grandparents already knew, and that is that any type of cherries would remove all traces of gout symptoms.
Try taking 25 or more cherries each day and as the pain subsides, continue by taking at least 10 per day. This is one of the most powerful gout remedies available.
Lime and Lemon Juice! Yes! That’s right!
Citric acid in lime juice acts as a solvent of the uric acid, and thus facilitates the passage of the uric acid out of the body.
Squeeze one lime and drink the juice twice per day.
The juice of lemon helps to stimulate the production of calcium carbonate which works to neutralize the uric acid in your body.Ensure the lemon is at room temperature and then roll it on the counter top with the weight from your palm pressing down.
This will produce the greatest amount of juice when squeezed.