Gout and high protein diet conflict

[momtomany1]

Re: Gout and high protein diet conflict

Tutti, you have my deepest sympathies. Have you tried getting a good deal more vitamin C in your diet and staying off the 'high purine' food list? Mushrooms for example, not a protein food, but a purine offender. I am limiting my mushrooms too, still missing my liver.. but you are very correct the pain of gout is pretty 'knowable' and I only have it in small doses but know just what you mean.

Getting lighter will only help with your gout, but it definitely sounds like there are foods you will need to avoid like the plague!

[Chipster67]

Re: Gout and high protein diet conflict

I've had Gout for a few years now. The best thing to do is to go to a Doctor and have them test your Uric Acid Levels. Then start you on a regimen of Alpurinol.
Alpurinol will keep the Uric Acid Levels at a normal level. It took my doctor a couple months to get mine under control, give pills, take for awhile, give blood, get higher dose, give blood, get even higher dose Finally Below or at normal levels.

Trust me Gout is **** ON EARTH. When you put a sheet on your foot at night and it hurts like someone is poking your joints with a hot red poker.. That's not a good thing.

Anyhow just my viewpoints on Gout, Been on Atkins in the past and after getting levels under control, I've had limited flair-ups. Usually my fault for forgetting pills

Chip

[mizski]

Re: Gout and high protein diet conflict

What about avoiding high-purine foods (esp. while in Induction) such as:

• Liver and other organ meats (heart, kidneys, etc.)
• Game meats
• Goose and partridge
• Sardines, mackerel, herring
• Scallops and mussels

And these veggies too:

• asparagus
• cauliflower
• mushrooms
• peas (later in OWL)
• spinach

The biggest help is to reduce protein which is hard during Induction but it would seem easier to reduce protein as one goes up the OWL rungs. Also, as one goes up the OWL rungs there are lots of other non-purine foods such as fruit added in.

Mr. Ski gets gout sometimes when his protein is too high in combination with high-purine foods. Maybe limiting these offenders might help those on Atkins with gout flare-ups.

[makmik]

Re: Gout and high protein diet conflict

The doctor that specializes in gout is a rheumatologist. Your uric acid level will tell if you are susceptible of getting an attack. If you have high uric acid levels than you should probably be on medication (Allopurinal) or stop the excess purin producing foods in your diet.
Gout can affect the left big toe or any joint or soft tissue in the body, an injury is very susceptible to getting gout. If your uric acid level has been high for a long period of time (higher than 3-7) your body tissue will be saturated with uric acid and crystals. It can take up to 6 months to reduce the attacks from the high body saturation and a year to completely get back to normal with medication.

THE ULTIMATE MAGIC PILL, EVERYONE NEEDS TO KNOW ABOUT FOR A GOUT ATTACK IS PREDNISONE.
It is a steroid that stops the body from reacting to the uric acid crystal which has gotten into the joint or tissue, preventing the inflammation, swelling and pain.

If you feel a gout attack coming on then the first thing you need to do is to ICE the area, this alone could stop it and drink a lot of WATER.

Then if the icing does not stop it and it goes too far, taking a prednisone will stop the attack and even reverse it to NORNAL within 20-30 min. vs. having two weeks of pure misery. It is a steroid that stops the body from reacting causing all the pain, inflammation, and swelling. The uric acid crystallizes and gets into the joint or soft tissue and causes the body to react as an infection.

If you have a gout attack, you are able to eat EGG WHITES AND OLIVE OIL which will allow you to stay close to the Atkins diet. They have NO purins in either, you can also eat fruit and must drink a lot of water.
It might be best to get off the diet till it is cleared up. Vegetables also produce purins, the greener one's will produce more.

Be aware the process of losing weight produces a lot of purins.

Tart cherries are supposed to reduce the inflammation or lower the uric acid level. The tarter one’s are better, there is a Pill sold in the health food store that contains Montmorency Cherry Flex. The Montmorency is supposed to be the best for gout. hxxp://www.cherry flex.com. They may help some, but nothing like ice and then PREDNISONE.

I have also heard of a sonic vibration machine that can break up the uric acid crystals, you limp in and walk out normal.