Uric Acid Treatment

First off, Gout is a medical condition. It is a form of arthritis that causes swelling and extreme pain in your joints, hindering or down right crippling movement. In most cases, Gout is said to be most severe in the first 24 hours, causing huge discomfort due to the constant needle like pain on the joints with most cases starting out from the big toe. Personally, I feel that it is best to splash some cold water on the affected area or have an ice pack handy to try to numb the gout affected area a little while you make your way to the doctor or a medical facility.

Now I have a brother who suffers from gout since he was 24 and I’ve been taking care of him ever since. Gout is hereditary for the most part, so we should have expected it since our daddy had the Gout too.

Now Gout happens when you eat too much food that contains purines. What are purines? Basically they’re in nearly everything you eat, but some are more highly concentrated than the others (I’ll get to that in awhile). What happens is that our body does what it does best to break down purines into what you might associate gout with “uric acid”. Uric acid actually helps to maintain our blood vessels by bonding with them and keeping them from being damaged, however, too much of it results in them crystallizing themselves.

Why is crystallizing so bad you might ask? Well if too much of a good thing is bad for you, uric acid my friend, is real bad for you. These uric acid crystals form into sharp crystal spikes that “cling” to your joints and organs. Obviously this then causes an inflammation which results in swelling and the huge amount of pain.

Now like I said earlier, gout is primarily caused by what you eat that produces a high concentrated dose of purines. What this means to you or your loved one suffering from gout is simple, watch what you eat of your body will eat you alive (from the toe up). You have to do something to reduce the uric acid production in your body and the best way to do that is to cut down or simply abstain from eating high pure purine food.

What happens if you don’t control your diet? Well that’s real simple now, Gout will just pay you another visit. It’ll knock on the door of your big toe a couple of times, and after it gets itself familiar with your toe it figures, why not and will probably hit your ankles next. You see Gout is like the nosy cousin you never really liked, causes too much trouble and blames it all on you. It doesn’t stop at the toe. It is an ambitious and hateful condition that loves your joints.

If you think walking with half your foot is bad. Try walking without a leg. If Gout ever reaches your ankles, you can consider getting a cane to help shift the weight of the leg from the joints to your hands. It doesn’t ease all the pain, just a little, but only enough to get you to the doctor for another round of painkillers.

If for some unholy reason you still do not care about yourself and your body or about Gout in any way, then you may as well invest in a wheel chair cos the next place Gout will be going is right up to your knee. Well I don’t even want to know how that’ll feel, but I can tell you one thing. My brother has never gotten that far, and he ain’t ever wanna go there. So if you think you don’t ever wanna feel someone stab you in the toe, ankle and god forbid, knee, please please please go on a diet.

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