Will Any of These Cause Gout.. Posted: 09-21-07 11:15am
I am suffering from Gout at the moment...
no medication as of yet. It started on my
right foot, Toe Joint, lasted for around
10 weeks.. then now, I have started
getting it on my left foot (Toe Joint).
Very painful, as no doubt you'll all
know.
Anyway, don't worry about suggesting
medication, I will go to my doctor for
that. What I do need advice on is do any
of these foods / drinks cause Gout?
1. Weetabox - Breakfast Cereal
2. Fizzy Drinks - Such as Coke or Pepsi
Max
3. Chocolate (Milk) - Mars Bars for
instance
4. Seeded Bread
5. Seeds by themselves.
I've not seen of the above mentioned but
quite often the list of foods to avoid is
a bit wooley...
Thanks for any replies!
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VaNole
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 20 Mar 2007 Posts: 25 Location: Va Beach Virginia
Posted: 09-21-07 18:13pm
mtmoore,
On your list two of the items you have
listed have been triggers for me. They
would be sodas and seeds.
I will admit I drink sodas excessively and
i believe they contribute to dehydration.
Seeds I identified as a trigger for me
while in the Navy and routinely bought
them out of the vending machines of course
with one of the many sodas I would drink.
Sure as heck a gout attack would follow.
Stopped the sodas and continued eating
seeds and still had the attacks.
In a few of my posts I have mentioned
dehydration I keep coming back to this
because the first rhuematologist I had
said monitor your urine flow if it is
really yellow you are getting dehydrated
and are in extremis in terms of getting a
gout flare.
Concerning foods stay away from stuff high
in purines.
V/R
Jeff
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mtmoore
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Joined: 21 Sep 2007 Posts: 2
Posted: 09-22-07 08:21am
Thanks for the quick reply!
It's interesting you mention seeds...
lately I have been eating bread with seeds
in them and mixed seeds a lot.
Never have I had a gout attack this
painful before. I think i'll try
stopping them for a while and see if it
helps.
I went to my doctor today and mentioned
the Baking Soda, he was not in favour of
it all! So, for the time being i'll stick
to normal medication and Ibuprofen until
no doubt my liver hangs out!
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VaNole
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Joined: 20 Mar 2007 Posts: 25 Location: Va Beach Virginia
Gout Posted: 09-22-07 10:55am
mtmoore,
I have not as of yet knocking on wood that
seeds on bread have triggered an attack.
However the seeds in trail mix et al sure
fire me up.
With you mentioning bread (and coming from
grains) I will tell you another thing that
lights me up is cous cous not sure if it
is a grain but I think it is.
Lot of folks on here talk about baking
soda I have never tried it. My NSAID of
choice and I think I have tried about 90
percent of them in the 17 years I have had
gout is indomethacin. Stay away from
Asprin it will trigger and attack.
Are you seeing a rhumeatologist??? If not
you may want to. Back when I first
started having issues and before the gout
diagnosis the regular navy Doc I was going
to thought it was Lyme disease (attack was
in the elbow) and was treating to that
end. Lived through pain for weeks and
then my knee swelled up the size of a
volleyball and I hobbled in to Portsmouth
Naval and then the test began and was
farmed out to rhuematology and have been a
frequent flyer there ever since.
V/R
Jeff
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pastorgbc
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 10 Aug 2007 Posts: 14 Location: Massachusetts
Posted: 10-12-07 08:35am
mtmoore
wrote:
Thanks for the quick reply!
It's interesting you mention seeds...
lately I have been eating bread with seeds
in them and mixed seeds a lot.
Never have I had a gout attack this
painful before. I think i'll try
stopping them for a while and see if it
helps.
I went to my doctor today and mentioned
the Baking Soda, he was not in favour of
it all! So, for the time being i'll stick
to normal medication and Ibuprofen until
no doubt my liver hangs
out!
One thing you may want to be aware of is
overall caloric content of your meals.
Sometimes bread--seeded or not, are very
high in calories, and added to a meal can
elevate the overall content, spiking your
insulin, and causing some problems with
your endocrine system, which can sometimes
trigger an attack.
Another thing to consider is whether you
are eating a whole grain bread that may
have brewer's yeast added. Brewer's yeast
is high in purines, which can trigger
attacks.
As far as nsaids go, I have great success
using sulindac for gout attacks. You may
want to ask your doctor about it and see
if that may be a better choice for you. I
get no stomach upset, and none of the
dizziness I get with indomethacin.
Ray
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painfree
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Posted: 10-15-07 07:57am
Recent research headed by Dr. Richard
Johnson, chief of nephrology at the
University of Florida in Gainesville, has
shown that the ingestion of fructose leads
to the generation of excess uric acid. The
typical American diet contains lots of
fructose as a sweetener in so many
processed foods in the form of high
fructose corn syrup. Fructose is also a
major component of sucrose, which is
regular table sugar.
