How to Reduce Uric Acid Overnight

Knowing how to reduce uric acid overnight will help you to bring your painful gout symptoms under control quickly. Uric acid contributes to a painful form of arthritis called gout. Purines in certain foods turn into uric acid. If you can control your food intake, you can control your uric acid levels. Uric acid forms naturally in the body for some individuals and therefore cannot be controlled by diet for some people.

Instructions

• 1

  Heavily Sweetened Foods

  Eliminate heavily sweetened foods from your diet. Foods such as wine, jam, jellies, and fruit pies are high in purines which turn into uric acid in your system. Do not eat foods that are high in fructose or high fructose corn syrup if you have a tendency to have high uric acid or get gout easily.

  Even naturally sweetened foods with fructose can trigger gout symptoms.

• 2

  Animal Organ Foods

  Eliminate foods that contain animal organs such as heart, liver, kidneys, blood of all animals including cows, chickens, turkeys, pigs and lambs.

  Animal organs contain high levels of purines that turn into uric acid in your system. Eating foods that are high in purines can trigger an episode of gout. Vegetarian diets reduce uric acid levels. You do not need to go completely vegetarian, just avoid animal organs or reduce the amount of animal products that you consume.

• 3

  High Sodium Foods

  Eliminate foods that are high in sodium. Eliminate added salt altogether. You can find salt substitutes in your grocery store spice section. Salt substitutes taste just like salt but have zero sodium. Salt substitutes are usually made of potassium. Although everyone needs potassium, you should still monitor your levels of potassium to make sure you are not consuming too much.

  Also avoid packaged and canned foods which are high in sodium as well.
  Foods can lower your uric acid if you choose the right ones.

  Knowing how to reduce uric acid overnight will help you stop the pain from gout.

• 4

  Certain Vegetables and Beans

  Eliminate beans and lentils out of your diet that are high in purines. You can get rid of uric acid in your system by watching your food intake and following a low purine diet.

  Eliminate certain vegetables out of your diet that are high in purines which turn into uric acid such as mushrooms, spinach, cauliflower and asparagus.