How to Prevent Gout
Things You'll Need
- Drinking Waters
- Strawberries And Cherries
Instructions
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Avoid drinking excessive amounts of alcohol. It leads to hyperuricemia (high uric acid levels), which causes gout.
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Maintain a healthy body weight. Obesity leads to increased toxins and metabolic by-products that need to be filtered, increasing your risk.
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Watch out for high-purine foods, which break down into uric acid: sardines, herring, organ meats such as kidney and sweetbreads, shrimp, anchovies, mushrooms, and dried legumes.
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Avoid exposure to lead in your drinking water or household environment.
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Eat cherries and strawberries. Some studies indicate these are helpful anti-gout foods.
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Maintain a healthy blood pressure. Hypertension predisposes you to gout.
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Review your medicines with your doctor. Some interfere with the body's ability to remove uric acid and can trigger gout: diuretics, cyclosporine, niacin, levodopa and low doses of aspirin.
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Drink lots of water, to flush the uric acid out of your body so that it does not have the opportunity to collect in one of your joints.
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Get plenty of rest, and don't put unnecessary stress and strain on any of your joints.
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