Gout is a chronic condition in which uric acid builds up in the joints. Unfortunately, it is impossible to get rid of this disease. However, it is possible to shorten periods of exacerbation and lengthen the period of remission by following strict dietary rules.
Diet for gout is aimed at normalizing purine metabolism and reducing the level of uric acid salt in the body. What is this diet? And how should a patient feed themselves during periods of exacerbation and persistent remission?
Diet for gout - description and general principles
Diet with exacerbation of gout and in the period of persistent remission requires adherence to a special diet. The patient should eat 4 times a day at regular intervals. Fasting and overeating are simply unacceptable as they can lead to the development of new seizures and a sharp deterioration in well-being. If the patient is overweight, then it is necessary to get rid of it. But not suddenly, but gradually.
It is also recommended to drink a lot. At least two liters during the phase of stable remission and at least three liters during the exacerbation phase. At the same time, you can drink absolutely any liquid - teas, compotes, juices, jellies, mineral water, etc. It should be taken between meals, not with meals.
Allowed in small quantities:
- Sausages;
- cooked poultry, beef, and lean fish;
- salt (very little);
- Tomatoes (no more than 3 pieces a day), cauliflower, peppers, vegetables, beets and radishes, spinach, sorrel, celery;
- Mushrooms;
- Butter;
- Milk (in cereals and tea);
- Plums;
- Salo.
Recommended foods for a gout diet:
- Poultry, rabbit meat;
- Seafood;
- Vegetable soups;
- Eggs;
- low-fat fish;
- Dairy products;
- Porridge, pasta, bread;
- all nuts and seeds;
- White cabbage, zucchini, cucumber, blue cabbage, potatoes;
- Dried fruits;
- green apples, citrus fruits, melons, gooseberries, avocados;
- Berries (with the exception of raspberries);
- Greens;
- natural juices and compotes, green and weak tea;
- Vegetable fat.
List of prohibited foods:
- Meat (fatty);
- Meat, fish and mushroom broths;
- jellied meat and meat sauces;
- smoked meat products;
- half-cooked soups;
- Offal;
- Canned fish and caviar;
- Coffee, cocoa and strong tea;
- Beans, peas and other legumes;
- Preservatives;
- animal fat;
- Spices (other than salt, vinegar and bay leaves);
- Chocolate, baked goods, cream;
- Alcohol, including beer;
- Grapes, raisins, raspberries, figs.
Diet menu for gout
1 day
- a plate of fruit salad with yogurt and honey, tea with milk, crackers;
- Milk or kefir;
- chopped vegetable soup with vegetable oil and herbs;
- Potato schnitzel, cream;
- boiled egg with cucumber;
- Cottage cheese with yogurt.
2 day
- Tomato salad with cucumber and herbs, rye bread, coffee;
- Cottage cheese casserole;
- boiled potatoes, stewed cauliflower, compote;
- Sandwich with cheese, kefir;
- Oatmeal, gingerbread, tea.
Day 3
- Buckwheat milk porridge, tea;
- Beet salad;
- Barley soup with vegetables, lean meat, coleslaw with cucumber;
- Compote with marshmallows;
- Yogurt, avocado.
4th day
- 2 cottage cheese with jam, weak coffee;
- Kefir with breadcrumbs;
- stuffed peppers (vegetables instead of meat), eggplant caviar, jelly;
- Sandwich with cheese, compote;
- Oatmeal porridge, tea.
Day 5
- 2 tomatoes, cottage cheese, coffee;
- Fruit salad with yoghurt;
- Congee, beef, tomato and cucumber salad;
- steamed vegetables with bread;
- boiled egg, tomato, compote with cookies.
6th day
- Vermicelli with sauce, chicory;
- Fruit;
- Jelly;
- braised zucchini with paprika, mashed potatoes, jelly;
- fresh vegetables;
- Baked apple with cottage cheese, tea.
Day 7
- Cottage cheese and tea;
- Kefir and gingerbread;
- Vegetable puree soup with rice, chicken meatballs, vegetable salad;
- Yogurt with berries;
- stewed vegetables, jelly.
In the 1920s, a famous doctor was closely involved with the problem of gout. The diet for gout consists of low-calorie foods that balance the acids and bases in the blood. It should be eaten often and in small portions. Fasting days are recommended once a week.
A diet with exacerbation of gout prohibits the use of meat or fish dishes. The diet consists mainly of liquid food (milk and dairy products, encasing decoctions of fruit, vegetable soups, milk porridge). You need to drink about 2 liters of fluids per day. You cannot go hungry in the acute phase.
Diet recipes for gout sufferers
Here are some healthy and delicious recipes to help make your gout diet varied and fun.
Lent borscht
- Boil water, add a little salt, add chopped potatoes (5 pieces).
- Fry the onions until golden, then add the grated carrots and beets.
- Top up the tomato and bring to the boil.
- Cut the cabbage and add to the almost finished potatoes together with the tomatoes and vegetables.
- Add paprika and herbs before turning off.
Pumpkin caviar
- Cut one kilogram of zucchini and stew in a pan until the liquid has evaporated.
- Fry carrots and onions (0. 5 kg each) separately, add a few tablespoons of thick tomato, cook.
- Add the resulting mixture to the zucchini, cook.
- Can be crushed with a blender.
Roasted Cauliflower
Disassemble the cabbage into inflorescences and put them in boiling water for a few minutes.
- Make a batter from 2 eggs, a little salted and whipped with sour cream.
- Dip the cabbage in the mixture and fry until golden brown in a preheated pan.
Gout: treatment with folk remedies
Diet for gout can be combined with treatment with various infusions, decoctions of medicinal plants. For example, you can make tea from black currant and lingonberry leaves and rose hips in equal proportions.
With gout, formulations of chamomile, dreaminess, roots of the saxifrage legs help well. These decoctions are prepared with 3 teaspoons of raw materials for 2 cups of boiling water. You need to take the medicine in half a glass 2-4 times a day before meals.
Ginger drink is used as a folk remedy for gout. Preparation: grate 10-20 g of the root and bring to the boil with a glass of boiling water. Take half a glass daily on an empty stomach. Ginger and gout are a good combination. Ginger root has one useful property - it cleanses the body, removes toxins and toxins.
The infusion of vine leaves and juice from berries should be drunk at least once a day, before breakfast. Fresh grapes should also be consumed - and the gout will gradually go into remission. Also, for the treatment of gout in folk medicine, a decoction of flaxseed is used. Preparation: 2 teaspoons of seeds are infused into 3, 5 cups of boiling water for 15 minutes, filtered and taken orally in a tablespoon 4 times a day.
Go on a diet completely - gout will go away in a week. With the help of diet, you can avoid worsened symptoms of gout, reduce your risk of deep development of the disease, and improve your quality of life. In this case, it is important to take into account the specific characteristics of a person's health, their taste preferences. This approach will make it possible to achieve positive results in the treatment of a complex disease.
Reviews and results in losing weight
The results of a gout diet are the restoration of normal uric acid metabolism and a decrease in its salts in the body. If you constantly adhere to such a diet, the number of relapses of the disease will be reduced. In addition, a side effect of a gout diet is weight loss and lowering of blood cholesterol, which can help normalize blood pressure.
Doctors' comments on the diet for gout emphasize its usefulness and effectiveness. The menu of the therapeutic nutrition course is diverse, supplies the body with all valuable substances and at the same time helps to cleanse the body. Such a diet program can be used for prevention by absolutely healthy people.