What are the dietary treatments for gout? What should I pay attention to?

Diet therapy is very important for diseases like gout. The incidence of this disease in our country is very high, and it also brings a lot of pain to patients. So what foods are better for gout?

Gout recipes

Fangfeng and Coix Seed Porridge: Ingredients and Usage: 10 grams of Fangfeng and 10 grams of Coix Seed. Cook it into porridge, take once a day for 1 week. Efficacy: clearing away heat and relieving numbness. It is mainly used to treat gout of damp-heat obstruction type.

Red bean porridge: Ingredients and usage: 30 grams of red beans, 15 grams of white rice, and appropriate amount of white sugar. First cook the red beans until cooked, then add white rice to make porridge and then add sugar. Efficacy: clearing away heat and removing dampness. It is mainly used to treat gout of damp-heat obstruction type.

Peach kernel porridge: Ingredients and usage: 15 grams of peach kernel, 160 grams of polished rice. First, mash the peach kernels into a paste, add water to grind into juice, remove the residue, and cook with glutinous rice into a thin porridge, which is then ready to be consumed. Efficacy: promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis, unblocking meridians and relieving pain. It is mainly used to treat gout caused by blood stasis, phlegm turbidity and numbness.

The health porridge for gout includes yam and scallion porridge: ingredients and usage: 100 grams of raw yam, 10 grams of scallion, 50 grams of polished rice, 30 grams of pinellia, 30 grams of astragalus, and appropriate amount of white sugar. Wash the rice first, add finely chopped yam and washed pinellia, allium macrostemon and astragalus and cook into porridge. Add sugar and take it at any time and in any amount. Efficacy: Invigorates Qi, promotes Yang, resolves phlegm and eliminates numbness. Indications: Gout due to qi deficiency and phlegm obstruction caused by spleen deficiency and endogenous phlegm

What should you pay attention to when you have gout?

1. Limit or quit drinking

Most gout patients drink excessively. Alcohol can easily cause lactic acid accumulation in the body, and lactic acid can inhibit the excretion of uric acid in the body; when drinking too much at one time, alcohol can cause a sharp increase in serum uric acid levels, causing an acute attack of gout. If you drink alcohol for a long time, even if you don't drink much, alcohol will stimulate the increase of purine in the body, accumulate more urate, and cause gout.

2. Drink plenty of water

Drinking plenty of water can break down the uric acid accumulated in the body or dilute the uric acid content in the blood, preventing the onset or worsening of gout. A normal person can meet the body's needs by drinking 2500ml of water a day. We recommend that gout patients drink at least 2500ml a day, and preferably 3000ml. However, the current situation is that gout patients often drink less than 2000ml of water a day.

3. Choose foods low in purine and cook scientifically

When cooking food, you should also master proper nutritional knowledge and try to choose low-purine foods (purine content less than 25mg/100g). For foods with high purine content, such as meat, you can cook the meat first and then remove the soup before eating.