My husband has been diagnosed with Gout, of course we seem to eat everythying that agrivates GOUT. What are the most common and uncommon things you should eat? God help me I had him on the Atkins and South Beach diet!!! Big mistake..

my mother-in-law has gout flare-ups quite often so i feel for you and your husband. i think there's an article here by Gloria about gout and high purine food. http://www.healthcastle.com/gout.shtml pretty much those foods that are NOT high and moderate in purine are low in purine - does it make sense? most (i have to emphasize MOST so refer to the table in her article) vegetables and grains are low in purine. however protein foods are trickier - try low purine protein such as eggs, tofu and dairy instead during flare-ups.

hope your husband will be feeling better soon.

xxx

"... a rigid purine restricted diet is of dubious therapeutic value and can rarely be sustained for long", so says a gout expert, Professor A. G. Fam in "Gout, Diet, and the Insulin Resistance Syndrome" at http://www.jrheum.com/subscribers/02/07/1350.html.

More gout info can be found at http://www.ICuredMyGout.org . Good luck.

what's gout?

Dried tart cherries did the trick for me. Your husband will be amazed how quickly the symptoms disappear after eating a couple handfuls of them. I hear the tart cherry juice works just as well.

What excellent references. I pretty much agree with both of them.

I recently had a gout attack. I've had high uric acid for 6 years. Low purine diet had little effect. Naproxen (just at the time) seemed very effective at removng the attack, but I do now get tophia, which is chrystals forming without the gout attack.

I observed that cold tends to promote attack and the substance formed is monosodium urate - so it needs sodium to form. So be careful with levels of salt. In fact if salt is used at all, make sure it is sea salt and avoid salty food.

I scanned the internet for all the supplements that might help - I'm not sure any did, but I did take them in the time it took to get to see the doctor.

Quercitin, Devil's claw, Pycnogenol, Ruthin, Vit C, Potassium Citrate, Lemon tea, celery seed.

I also suffer from IRS, and I came across a good ariticle on how to handle that at
http://www.acnem.org/journal/18-1_april_19...ance-part_1.htm

Look at the tables at the end. People who are overweight often have IRS.

I liked the baking soda cure - which I shall try if it ever hppens again

Not all alcohols are the same:

Contrary to popular opinion, red wine should help, because it contains pycongenol. Port drinkers experienced attacks because port used to be stored in lead-lined casks. However, beer is a high purine source and the alcohol from shorts inhibits kidney clearance.

You'd know if you had it!

It is a very painful form of arthritis caused by chrystals of monosodium urate forming from the bloodstream at a joint. The usual joint is the one where the big toe joins the foot. The Immune system thinks the body is being attacked and so causes massive inflamation and tries to get rid of the chrystals, which it can't.

Rgds,