Treating Gout

Treating gout requires medication, yes, but it does not mean that you should generally rely on drugs to stop it because most of these medicines are primarily made to reduce pain during gout attacks. Pain killers are potent medicine to stop the drastic pain that gout attacks may cause, but you need to be warned that pain killers have side effects too – your kidney may suffer the consequences sooner or later!

If you are a gout sufferer, you might have already conducted research on how you can eliminate your gout problem forever, but unfortunately you may not have found a permanent cure for it. The truth is that gout cannot be reversed, but you can minimize the painful attacks.

There are alternative ways on how to treat gout and of course water therapy has topped each list of suggested remedies. This is because the main cause of gout is too much uric acid in the body by which the kidney and the liver failed to dilute and expel out. Once uric acid settles inside the body for a long period of time, it may turn into crystals and settle between joints. Once it has found its way between the patient’s joints, infection will occur and gout problems will ensue.

Treating gout by increasing your daily intake of alkaline rich foods is the key to seal gout from causing you any trouble. There are so many foods that you can choose from, and these foods will never give you any side effects – unlike most of the prescribed drugs! Here is the list of foods that you can choose from:

1. Watermelon

2. Fresh Coconut water

3. Seedless sweet grapes

4. Lemons

5. Kelp

6. Mango

7. Ripe bananas

8. Cherries

9. Strawberries

10. Papaya

11. Parsley

12. Lime

13. Seaweeds

14. Avocados

15. Celeries

16. Dates (dried or fresh)

17. Apples

18. Pears

19. Raspberry

20. Cabbage

These are the top 20 list of alkaline rich foods that certainly deserve to have a place in your daily diet. These foods are certified effective in lowering your uric acid build ups and help your kidney to naturally dilute the uric acid reserves inside your system.  You can also maintain your kidney’s health as you take care of gout with these kinds of foods. Once the uric acid is suppressed by these alkaline agents, gout will not be such a painful threat.