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• Allen Aguada on October 6th, 2007

  

  here is a list to start with.

  (But your mum’s phsysician should have told her this? Diet is only asmall part of gout - make sure she is receiving proper medicaladvice and proper medication)

• Freddie Debardelaben on October 6th, 2007

  

  Thing is, I’ve never really eaten the foods associated with gout, very little red meat, I rarely eat any kind of fish, although very recently I’ve had a strange urge for sardines. 

  One food stuff I do tend to avoid because I associate it with a gout attack is citrus fruit juice; just looking at orange juice makes my toes twinge, maybe it has something to do with the high calorific value…

  Alcohol will cause an attack for me, but it’s not consistent, i.e. I can go out on a bender and feel no side effects, or I can have one or two pints and have a small attack. I’m working on a theory at the moment that this has to do with high alcohol content lager (I certainly associate my first major gout attacks during a period when I actively asked for ‘export’ strength lager at the bar).

  Maybe this has to do with a flood gate effect, i.e. my waste system can process low alcohol lager fine at the rate it works at, but add in some more alcohol and it all fails. I suppose the rate at which I drink might also have an effect if this effects how fast the waste system operates.

  Would be interesting to find out if there is a link between the number of gout attack sufferers hobbling around, and the proliferation of high alcohol lagers…

• Terrance Molock on October 7th, 2007

  

  Gout and drinking..I guess we could end up at the chicken and theegg dillema..

  Can alcohol cause gout? Depends..I guess what we use as a definition for gout. If gout is the actual attack..then I think alcohol..AS WELL asjust about anything else..can trigger it.

  IF you believe as I most certainlly do that gout isdisease..whereupon somehow too much uric acid ends up in/near thejoints..AND about the only way to fix this is to lower the overalllevel of uric acid in the blood..AND about the only way to do this iswith allopurinol..then NO alcohol is not a factor.

  If you go back in history..gout has quite a clear blame..andtreatment in the bible.Tracing back historically gout was oftenreferred to as a scourge.Tracing this word back..has originaldefinitions as in “revenge,vengence,punishment”…

  This went on for a good 2,000 years..gout blamed ondrunkeness..and as punishmnet.The focal point being the gout suffererwho drank a lot..was a glutton(another sin) with meat..and livedbadly.UNFORTUNATELY these gout sufferers were actually in theminority..it was just that the finger got pointed at them injustification..MEANWHILE the vast majority of gout sufferers gotignored.

  Wasn’t until around the 1950’s that it became clear that this wasa simple problem of intrinsic uric acid levels..uric acid lowerringdrugs..allopurinol was discoverred.

  In the words of a rheumatologist I see..”ANYONE that ties goutsufferring to alcohol..is at least a good 20 years behind inresearch..I have never actually seen alcohol affect blood uric acidlevels to other than a miniscule amount..the person has gout..and hasto have their uric acid lowerred..can alcohol triggeran “attack”..sure just like ANYTHING else..

  It used to be “KNOWN” that alcohol was LOADED with purines. Alcohol has almost none. True..alcohol does interfere to a VERY TINY amount with thedisposal of uric acid..there again..blood uric acid tests show thatonly a very negligeable amount of uric acid is retained.

  Again and again and again..get an average of uric acidlevels..lower them consistentlly by 20 to 30 %.pretty much onlyallopurinol works for this..and goodbye gout..

  This.. people with too high uric acid levels..and having goutattacks triggerred..either by alcohol..or anything else..is a hardconcept to die.

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