Recommended Diet for Gout Patients: Is It a Pain Like Just a Breeze Passing By?

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Today, we live in an environment where it is easier to encounter a wider variety of cultures.

This was especially true for food culture.

As people ate Western diets with higher amounts of carbohydrates and fat rather than meals centered on Korean cuisine, concerns about health were growing.

In fact, conditions that used to appear at relatively older ages are now often appearing in people in their 20s and 30s.

Today, among them, we will look at gout symptoms, one of the representative conditions, along with the recommended diet for gout patients.

What is gout?

Gout is a condition accompanied by severe pain to the point that it feels like being cut by a blade even if only a breeze passes by.

Along with this, swelling and redness of the joints are characteristic.

Such gout can be caused by uric acid levels.

Uric acid, a substance produced from purines created as our body’s cells die, is usually excreted through the kidneys into urine.

However, when uric acid production increases excessively and excretion does not proceed smoothly, the blood level of uric acid rises and it accumulates in crystal form in various body tissues, including the joints, causing inflammation and pain.

Gout is usually divided into causes such as uric acid being produced at a normal level but the kidneys being unable to filter it, or excessive production. In addition, side effects from medication and genetics can also be considered causes, but since it can also occur due to obesity, drinking, and food, it is most important to pay attention to managing your health in daily life.

What are the symptoms of gout?

The symptoms and types of gout can be broadly divided into three categories.

✅ Acute gouty arthritis

First, if severe pain suddenly occurs in one joint and then swelling improves over about 5 to 10 days, only to recur repeatedly, this applies.

Acute gouty arthritis usually appears in the big toe.

✅ Intermittent gout

If acute gouty arthritis is left untreated or worsens, an asymptomatic period occurs, which can be called intermittent gout.

✅ Chronic gout

If no treatment is given during the two stages above and several years pass, persistent swelling, pain, and stiffness may occur in multiple joints, so caution is needed.

What is the recommended diet for gout patients?

In acute gout, redness and heat can improve with anti-inflammatory pain relievers alone.

If you have been diagnosed with chronic gout, it is good to improve the underlying causes, take uric acid suppressants and uric acid excretion agents, consistently manage your body’s uric acid levels, and keep the recommended diet for gout patients in mind.

First of all, for gout patients, it is most important to eat foods low in purines.

Purines are mainly found in large amounts in meats such as pork, beef, and organ meats.

They are also found in high amounts in oily fish and shellfish.

Alcoholic beverages also require caution.

Beer, wine, and the like are not part of the recommended diet for gout patients, so it is best to avoid them as much as possible. Instead, foods such as mushrooms, legumes, asparagus, spinach, and white fish are commonly recommended.

In addition, since uric acid is excreted through urine, supplying water, vitamins, and minerals is essential to reduce kidney stones.

As part of the recommended diet for gout patients, it is good to provide about 3 L of water a day, and to suppress uric acid levels through fiber and various other nutrients found in fruits and vegetables.

The gout symptoms introduced today should be managed together with maintaining a normal body weight.

In particular, obese patients are said to have a higher chance of developing gout.

However, if you attempt rapid weight loss, lactic acid and ketone bodies, which are acidic substances in the blood, may be produced in excess and negatively affect the excretion of uric acid, so we recommend losing weight slowly in a healthy and systematic way.

Thank you.

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