Gout

Short characteristic of a disease

Developing of gout is connected with adjournment of urates (salt of uric acid) which collect in an organism and, eventually, affect joints. About three persons from one thousand suffer from this disease. In risk group there are men after 40 years, and also women directly after the termination of a menopause. Especially unpleasantly for the fact that gout influences any joints – a foot knees, fingers, elbows and brushes, that is symptoms of a disease can be shown absolutely in all parts of a body.

The reasons of development of gout – are various. It both diabetes mellitus, and hypertension, and unhealthy way of life, and genetic predisposition. At diagnosis gout, a diet becomes an integral part of treatment as disease attacks often develop against the background of alcohol intake or an overeating. As a rule, aggravations of inflammatory process happen days at night. At the same time the acute pain can be caused by the most insignificant reasons, for example, sheet weight. Gout which treatment for any reasons dragged on is shown even more often eventually, and the periods of an aggravation become more long.

Gout – symptoms and a clinical picture

In most cases the inflammation arises only in one joint, but if not to take care of a conclusion of urates, it extends to other body parts. Typical symptoms of gout are:

• acute, sometimes the intolerable affected joint pain, and any of the known anesthetics of drugs cannot eliminate a pain syndrome;
• swelling of a joint, erubescence in the field of the inflammation center;
• fervescence up to 39-40 degrees;
• numbness of a sore joint which takes place days in the afternoon.

The acute period of disease lasts from two to seven days. Then pain and other symptoms leave, it becomes more slight for the patient, but it only "military cunning". Even do not doubt that gout will declare itself again, and it can happen both in several days, and in two-three months after the termination of the first attack. The longer the person is ill, the more often there are aggravations. Over time gout which treatment was not made passes to new joints and leads to a full destrukturization of bones.

If inflammatory process lasts more than three years, then the patient has dense hillocks under skin. It is also accumulations of urates – crystals of uric acid. Sometimes these educations burst without any visible reason. At the same time they leave crumbs of white or gray color. One more extremely unpleasant effect of gout – stones in kidneys which arise approximately at 20% of patients. In rare instances the disease affects cordial system, affects a pericardium and valves of heart.

Gout – treatment by traditional methods

At once there is a wish to tell that any doctor cannot guarantee an absolute recovery of the patient, but distribution of inflammatory process is quite successfully controlled by means of modern medical drugs, a diet and special procedures. For prevention of formation of stones in kidneys and decrease in acidity of urine prescribe the patient corticosteroid hormones. Gout which symptoms do not pass after a course of treatment medicamentous means demands an operative measure. Surgeons delete deposits of uric acid in soft tissues that allows the patient to lead for some time normal life.

However, operation is a last resort. Need for it arises rather seldom as in recent years appeared several techniques allowing to control disease without participation of surgeons at once. One of them – a plazmoforezogemosorbtion - the procedure of clarification of blood by means of the special equipment. Improve a condition of the patient with gout and some other actions – physical therapy, fight against disturbances of exchange process, treatment of primary diseases – a diabetes mellitus or a hypertension.

Gout: diet as integral element of process of treatment

As gout is characterized by disbolism, observance of a diet is very important from the point of view of maintenance of normal health of the patient. First of all, it is necessary to limit significantly amount of animal protein in a standard diet. Besides, also fatty acids and digestible carbohydrates are dangerous. Proceeding from it, it is possible to make the approximate list of useful products:

• any vegetables, except for horse-radish, a cauliflower, a radish, a sorrel and spinach;
• practically all fruit, including a citrus;
• the fat-free dairy and fermented milk products, not too salty and fat grades of cheese. Cottage cheese and kefir are extremely useful;
• chicken or quail eggs;
• all types of vegetable oils;
• porridges, especially from whole grain;
• unsweetened pastries in reasonable quantities;
• nuts and bee honey.

Smoked products, sausages, table salt, peas, bean cultures, mushrooms, fat, fried fish and meat, canned food, spices and seasonings, cocoa, chocolate, tea, coffee and alcoholic beverages are excluded from a diet. For patients with the diagnosis gout, a diet is the most right way to improvement of health therefore it is necessary to observe strictly recommendations of the doctor and to eat properly. As for the number of meals, a lunch-breakfast-dinner it is better to replace the standard scheme with five times food and to limit amount of food eaten at one time.

National treatment of gout

Important note: if made you the diagnosis gout, folk remedies have to be accepted surely together with traditional medical drugs as in itself they only facilitate symptoms, but do not remove a cause of illness.

• fill in fresh needles with boiled water so that water level was 1-2 cm higher than needles level. Infuse mix within 1 hour, then put it on the water bath and you cook 40-50 minutes on small fire. The received broth is cooled and used for compresses which do daily before going to bed;
• collecting a St. John's Wort (4 parts), flax seeds (2 parts), dandelion roots (3 parts), tansy flowers (1 part) and hop cones (3 parts) is filled in with 0,5 l of boiled water and infuses within 12 hours. Infusion is accepted during the aggravation periods on 5-6 tablespoons;
• collecting sheets of a birch (1 part), inula roots (3 parts), sheets of currant (3 parts) and fennel fruits (2 parts) is filled in with 0,5 l of boiled water. Mix infuses within 12 hours. Is accepted during the aggravation periods (on 2 tablespoons after food) and in the preventive purposes (1/3 glasses of 3-5 times a day).

National treatment of gout is extremely various, and you will find many valuable recipes in the Internet. We want to notice only that before their use surely consult with the attending physician that will save you from mistakes and will prevent development of unpleasant complications which quite often arise after misuse of folk remedies, broths and infusions.