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Diet with exacerbation of gout
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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The most important curative measure to eliminate gout is proper nutrition. It is completely impossible to get rid of the disease, but you can alleviate the general condition. So, with an exacerbation of gout, a special diet is used. It will make the periods of remission more long. Observance of a certain diet is very important, it will help to maintain good health.
The essence of diet
Gout is a metabolic disease. This condition is characterized by an increase in the salt of uric acid. The main essence of a diet with an exacerbation is to reduce this level. This is achieved through the use of special products. Curing gout is not possible, but it is quite possible to alleviate the condition of the patient. For this, during periods of exacerbation, it is worth eating in a special way.
The joints suffer greatly from gout, because they contain a lot of salts. The joints of the fingers and toes are more prone to this. In general, the disease affects all the joints on its way. In most cases, the disease is chronic. Cure it with medication is not possible. Therefore, it is worth paying attention to proper nutrition. Exclusion of products that provoke salt deposition and an increase in uric acid will help ease the condition of the victim. This is the purpose of this diet.
Diet with gout during an exacerbation
A special diet is prescribed for the first manifestation of the disease. Most often, the period of exacerbation is observed at night. The attack is similar to acute arthritis. Clinical symptoms begin to develop rapidly, reaching its apogee in 6 hours. Severe pain is felt in the affected joint. Often there is swelling and redness. After 14 days, the attack stops and the person returns to normal life. The main thing in the period of an exacerbation is to start a special diet recommended for gout.
The main principle of treatment is to prevent the progression of the disease. To do this, it is necessary to form a correct lifestyle for the patient. It is recommended to limit the use of meat products, including broths. Under the ban are offal, seafood and beans. The diet should be enriched with the optimal amount of carbohydrates and milk proteins. The liquid should be consumed in a volume of 2-3 liters.
The diet is prescribed for 10-14 days. Particular emphasis is placed on the use of liquid food. It is advisable to give preference to sour-milk products. Pay attention should be on weak tea, vegetable soups, juices and compotes. Particular benefit is the use of alkaline mineral water.
During the exacerbation of digestion is often observed. Therefore, you should follow a sparing diet. When the disease begins to recede, you can add a small amount of meat and fish to the diet. It is allowed to eat dairy products, vegetables, eggs and fruits.
Menu diet for gout during an exacerbation
The diet for gout during the exacerbation should exclude food that is rich in purine. Limiting the production of uric acid will reduce pain syndrome. Therefore, during a period of exacerbation with gout it is necessary to follow a certain diet menu. Refers to this issue is quite serious. The food should be fractional, at least 4 times a day. To starve in any case it is impossible, it will cause the production of uric acid. Dietary nutrition is very important, exactly the same as treatment with medication.
Variations of the menu are pretty much based on lists of allowed and forbidden products, you can create it yourself. The most effective way to get rid of an exacerbation is to push away from the diet menu # 6. How to better eat, it is worth to check with the supervising doctor. Below is an approximate diet for the day.
For breakfast it is necessary to give preference to vegetable salad. Dilute everything with a fruit pie with millet. You can eat one boiled egg (remember that a week they can eat no more than 3 pieces). For the second breakfast drink a broth of a dogrose. For dinner it is necessary to cook noodles on milk and drink everything with kissel. At noon will come fresh fruit. Dinner: low-fat cheese cakes, cabbage rolls from vegetables, as well as light tea.
This menu is approximate. It clearly shows what a day diet can be. Naturally, you can create the menu yourself, just follow all the recommendations.
Diet recipes
Prepare delicious dishes is not difficult, for this there is no need to have special abilities. So, a diet can include a lot of tasty and simple recipes. You should start with vegetable salads.
- Recipe number 1. Cucumber salad. It is necessary to take the main ingredient in any quantity, wash it and finely chop it. Then add salt, add lettuce leaves and season with low-fat sour cream or cream.
- Recipe number 2. The vinaigrette. You should boil potatoes, beets and carrots. After the vegetables have cooled, cut them into cubes. Add in the salad finely chopped apples, cucumbers and lettuce leaves. All these components are mixed together and refueled with sunflower oil.
- Recipe number 3. Carrot salad with green peas. Carrots should be ground to a mushy state with a grater. After that, green and canned peas are added here. You can season the salad with low-fat sour cream.
Salads are good, but it is also necessary to prepare something for the first dish. At this stage, it will be about delicious and simple soups.
- Recipe number 1. Potato soup. It is enough to boil the potatoes until they are ready, and then wipe it through sieves. To the desired state, he is divorced with a decoction. Then white sauce, egg and butter are added to it. All this is boiled for several minutes. Serve soup with greens and sour cream.
- Recipe number 2. Milk soup with vermicelli. It is necessary to boil vermicelli, no more than 5 minutes, and then add to it boiled milk. The soup is cooked until ready for vermicelli. Once everything is ready, add butter and sugar.
There are several simple and delicious recipes of side dishes, sauces and desserts. Everyone can prepare them, with a minimum set of products.
- Recipe number 1. Oatmeal with milk. You need to boil the milk and add oatmeal. Then add salt and sugar to taste. Everything is cooked to the full. At the end of the process, you can add a little butter.
- Recipe number 2. Omelet. It is necessary to grind the flour in a small amount of milk and add whipped eggs to it. After which all this is poured onto a baking tray and cooked in the oven.
- Recipe number 3. You should mix the cottage cheese with flour, add an egg there. All this is mixed up to a thick consistency, and cheese cakes are formed. Then they are dumped in flour and fried in a frying pan on both sides until a golden crust is formed.
- Recipe number 4. White sauce. It is necessary to dry the flour a little in a frying pan to a cream shade. Then connect it with butter, while constantly stirring everything. Add the hot broth to the mixture and cook for 10 minutes.
Cooking quickly, easily and delicious can each. Gout is not a verdict. Even this disease allows you to eat really tasty, without strong restrictions.
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What can be eaten with exacerbation of gout?
The diet should be not only sparing, but also useful. So, what can you eat during periods of exacerbation. You should pay attention to vegetarian soups. Suitable borscht, cabbage soup, vegetable and potato soup. In them it is possible to add cereals. It is allowed to eat lean meat, it can be chicken, rabbit and turkey. Dilute the diet can be seafood, such as squid and shrimp.
It is allowed to eat fish of low-fat varieties, but not more than 170 grams per day up to 3 times. It is necessary to pay attention to dairy products, it can be sour-milk products, including cottage cheese and dishes from it, it is allowed to eat sour cream. As for milk, it should be present, but only in a small amount.
Eggs up to 3 pieces per week. Pasta and cereals can be consumed in unlimited quantities. Give preference to white cabbage, potatoes, carrots, cucumbers and zucchini. They should be eaten in high quantities. In the form of delicacies, dried fruits and nuts are allowed. Non-chocolates, marmalade, marshmallows and pastilles, entering the list of allowed products.
Surplus purine removes from the body a cucumber juice. Just one glass a day is enough. Alkaline mineral waters have a similar effect. It is recommended to use apples of green varieties, gooseberry, any berries, except raspberries. Black and white bread, dill and vegetable oil are not forbidden.
What can not be eaten with exacerbation of gout?
Forbidden products are not so few. Waiver of them for many people can be an unbearable burden, but to facilitate the state to follow a certain plan is simply necessary. So from what it is necessary to refuse and that it is impossible to eat during an exacerbation.
Meat of young animals is not recommended. Under the "sanctions" got a sticky broth, cooked from the head, feet, etc. In general, under the ban are almost all the broths, and not necessarily meat. Even mushroom broth to use is not necessary. Refuse to have from meat broths and smoked products.
Fatty varieties of fish can become harmful when exacerbated. It is forbidden to eat salted and fried fish, as well as canned fish. Sharp and salty cheeses are included in the ban group. This includes also various spices, including pepper, mustard and horseradish. You can not spice up the food with vinegar and salt.
Exclude are products that are capable of exciting the nervous system. These include strong tea, coffee and cocoa. Refuse should be from cream cakes, chocolate and cakes. Simply put, from all the heavy food. This includes pork and products from it. It is unacceptable to drink juices with preservatives, legumes and grapes. Naturally, alcohol is under strict prohibition.
It is necessary to limit consumption of salt, sausages, boiled meat and fish. Preference is given to poultry, salmon, trout and mackerel. Limit the use of pickles, marinades, lard and plums.