No more pain! Natural home made remedies making sure you put a smile on your face and forget about gout. Learn what food to avoid and which natural homemade remedies you can use to get rid of gout and live a happy life!
How to get rid of gout
Browse our site to find natural remedies for gout and more background information about gout.
We will summarize here what this website has to offer to you.
What is gout?
Gout is an inflammatory joint disease and a form of arthritis.
It results from the buildup of uric acid in the blood. Uric acid - urine : you see a clear relation between food and gout.
Sometimes the amount of uric acid gets too much for the kidneys. Too much to get it out of your blood quickly. This uric acid crystallizes and collects in the joint spaces, causing gout.
Gout attacks
A gout attack usually lasts five to ten days. In 3 cases out of 4 the gout attack appears in your big toe.
Gout in the big toe can become so painful that even the pressure of your bedsheet at night will cause intolerable pain.
Who gets Gout?
- Mostly men between 40 and 50 years of age. Women seem to have better kidneys...
- People where gout runs in the family.
- People doing anything to produce more uric acid like... overeating!
- People following diets with excessive amounts of organ meats, sardines, anchovies, meat extracts, dried peas, and lentils.
- Alcohol abusers.
- Patients using medications like diuretics, salicylates, and levodopa.
- Persons using the vitamin niacin or nicotinic acid.
Gout Symptoms
Gout occurs too fast to notice! You can go to bed feeling fine and wake up in excruciating pain caused by gout.
Some people experience joint swelling and shiny red or purple skin around the joint.
Natural cures for gout
If you have gout, professional medical treatment is required. Untreated gout may progress to serious joint damage and disability.
We already mentioned there is a huge relation between gout and food.
You can find on this site lots of natural kitchen remedies for gout that can be effective along with medication to reduce the pain and symptoms of gout.