Can gout eat duck and chicken?

Gout is a disease that often occurs in middle-aged and elderly people. Gout is mainly caused by tophi caused by damage to the joints due to long-term life, so gout will cause pain. Severe gout can even cause joint deformation, finger swelling, etc. If you are a patient with gout, you should avoid certain foods in your daily life. So can gout patients eat chicken and duck?

Chicken and duck meat are high in purine and it is recommended to eat less. If you want to eat them, you can cook soup, discard the soup and eat a small amount of meat. You can eat more foods with low purine content, such as milk and eggs.

What can't you eat if you have gout?

1. Limit the intake of high-purine foods.

Gout patients should avoid high-purine foods. Patients should choose a low-purine diet during the acute phase. The purine intake should be within 150 mg per day, and high-purine foods are prohibited. Although exogenous purine is not the main cause of gout, eating a meal rich in purine is similar to injecting a dose of uric acid into the blood, which suddenly increases the blood uric acid concentration and can easily induce an acute attack of gout. Therefore, reducing the intake of purine-rich foods is of unique importance in the prevention and treatment of gout.

2. Limit salt intake.

Excessive salt intake can cause spasm of small arteries, increase blood pressure, and accelerate the process of renal arteriosclerosis. Sodium salt promotes the precipitation of uric acid. Appropriately reducing sodium salt intake can help lower blood pressure and reduce sodium and water retention in the body. Gout patients must limit salt intake to 2 to 5 grams per day, and ordinary people should maintain a light diet. Clams, fermented bean curd, pickled products, preserved eggs, salted (pickled) vegetables, dried shrimps, bacon (eggs), and vegetables such as water spinach and chrysanthemum are all high in sodium and should be eaten less or not.

3. Limit the intake of fatty foods.

Gout patients should reduce fat intake, as excessive fat consumption can reduce the excretion of uric acid. The total daily fat intake for gout patients should be around 50 grams. Note that vegetable oils should be used as the main source of fat, and less animal fat should be consumed. Use less oil when cooking.

It should also be noted that if gout patients are in the intermittent period of gout for a long time and hyperuricemia is under control, dietary restrictions can be further relaxed, with low-purine foods as the main food, medium-purine foods in limited amounts, and high-purine foods eaten less. But what you must remember is that everything should be done in moderation. Even low-purine foods can cause gout attacks if consumed excessively, so you must seek medical attention immediately.