There is no such thing as a 'superfood". All such claims turn out to be little more that advertising hype.vegetariantaxidermy wrote:Gout is very painful. I remember my grandfather having it. The best thing about the internet is you can look up anything you want, and find out the best foods to eat and diet plans for whatever ailment you have, and for prevention. Mind you, with the number of supposed 'super-foods' available it's a wonder anyone ever gets sick.thedoc wrote:Thankyou, I've had some form of arthritis for as long as I can remember and recently it flared up as gout. When I have something myself I tend to learn as much about it as I can. I think it's interesting that the conventional wisdom is that gout is caused by diet yet there are some who claim that diet will not control it. Of course the medical professional who said that diet will not control gout also said that it wasn't gout till you couldn't walk, but that is not what the podiatrist said.vegetariantaxidermy wrote: Clever of you to spot that. I hope your wife is successful in her endeavours. It certainly gets a lot harder as you get older.
I will be 70 in a few days and my wife will follow me in June.
Gout is extremely painful. Liken it to someone ripping off your big toe and rubbing the raw joint with sandpaper and you will be somewhere near. The cure is to have an injection directly into the joint of steroids. As you can imagine the pain of that alone is great, and administered without anaesthetic is nothing to the pain of the gout.
Allopurinol taken regularly addresses the problem of the nitrogen being converted from uric acid to urine.