An Increase in Uric Acid Symptoms Could Be Your Diet
Here, by an increase in uric acid symptoms, I mean an increase in uric acid levels.
High levels lead to crystals in the joints that cause gout symptoms.
Here, you'll discover how your diet can lead to an increase in uric acid symptoms.
The symptoms of gout -- redness, swelling, heat, inflammation, stiffness, and, excruciating pain -- are the result of your body's reaction to what it 'sees' as foreign bodies in the joints, tendons and surrounding tissue.
And these crystals are formed out of high uric acid levels in your blood.
Abnormally high levels occur when your kidneys can't process and flush enough uric acid out of your body, fast enough.
This could be because your body is producing too much, or, your kidneys aren't able to handle 'normal' levels because they aren't working efficiently enough.
Either way, a gout sufferer like yourself, with high uric acid symptoms needs to ensure that more acid isn't being piled on top of already higher-than-normal levels.
Uric acid is actually produced out of the process that 'purines' in our cells go through as they help to produce our protein and energy requirements.
But they also exist in different concentrations in our foods.
Gout sufferers, who need to reduce uric acid, have therefore to reduce the amount of purines taken in through their food.
Basically this means identifying and avoiding those foods that are high in purines.
Generally speaking, these are high protein foods in food types such as; red meat, poultry, seafood, organ meat, dried legumes, etc.
For example; steak, mincemeat, lamb, meat extracts, kidneys, liver, turkey, goose, mackerel, herring, sardines, mussels, shrimps, etc.
Include alcohol here, especially beer.
You then have to figure out which foods are 'safe' to eat.
Again, generally speaking, these are low fat dairy products, high vitamin C foods, complex carbohydrates, essential fatty acids, green leaf vegetables, plenty fruit, etc.
For example; low fat yoghurt, low fat milk, red bell peppers, red cabbage, rice, pasta, cereals, tuna, salmon, nuts, cabbage, parsley, kale, cherries (very good!), pineapple, bananas, blueberries, etc.
Of course, this is a short list, there are a lot more to consider.
And there are other issues, apart from diet, for you to address in order to prevent an increase in uric acid symptoms.
High levels lead to crystals in the joints that cause gout symptoms.
Here, you'll discover how your diet can lead to an increase in uric acid symptoms.
The symptoms of gout -- redness, swelling, heat, inflammation, stiffness, and, excruciating pain -- are the result of your body's reaction to what it 'sees' as foreign bodies in the joints, tendons and surrounding tissue.
And these crystals are formed out of high uric acid levels in your blood.
Abnormally high levels occur when your kidneys can't process and flush enough uric acid out of your body, fast enough.
This could be because your body is producing too much, or, your kidneys aren't able to handle 'normal' levels because they aren't working efficiently enough.
Either way, a gout sufferer like yourself, with high uric acid symptoms needs to ensure that more acid isn't being piled on top of already higher-than-normal levels.
Uric acid is actually produced out of the process that 'purines' in our cells go through as they help to produce our protein and energy requirements.
But they also exist in different concentrations in our foods.
Gout sufferers, who need to reduce uric acid, have therefore to reduce the amount of purines taken in through their food.
Basically this means identifying and avoiding those foods that are high in purines.
Generally speaking, these are high protein foods in food types such as; red meat, poultry, seafood, organ meat, dried legumes, etc.
For example; steak, mincemeat, lamb, meat extracts, kidneys, liver, turkey, goose, mackerel, herring, sardines, mussels, shrimps, etc.
Include alcohol here, especially beer.
You then have to figure out which foods are 'safe' to eat.
Again, generally speaking, these are low fat dairy products, high vitamin C foods, complex carbohydrates, essential fatty acids, green leaf vegetables, plenty fruit, etc.
For example; low fat yoghurt, low fat milk, red bell peppers, red cabbage, rice, pasta, cereals, tuna, salmon, nuts, cabbage, parsley, kale, cherries (very good!), pineapple, bananas, blueberries, etc.
Of course, this is a short list, there are a lot more to consider.
And there are other issues, apart from diet, for you to address in order to prevent an increase in uric acid symptoms.
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