Gout disease

Gout disease is a result of excessive consumption of purine substances. Purines into uric acid the body is processed, but if excess uric acid levels, so that the kidneys are unable to remove uric acid crystals accumulate in the joints. As a result, joint pain, swollen and inflamed.
Uric acid is a disease of purine metabolic waste substances from the rest of the food we eat. Purine itself is a substance contained in any food that comes from living bodies. In other words, in the living body there is this purine substances, and because we eat these living beings, then switching to the purine substances in our body. Various vegetables and fruits also contained purine. Purine also resulted from the destruction of body cells which occur normally or because of certain diseases. Usually the uric acid attack in the elderly, because the accumulation of these purine material.

Gout symptoms is very special and has three stages
Signs and Symptoms of First Stage
The first level is called the level of acute gout arthritis or acute gout inflammation. At this stage, patients may suffer from arthritis attacks and special attacks will disappear without treatment within 5-7 days. Because it is fast disappearing, so often people with foot sprain or suspected to be infected do not suspect gout disease and do further checks.

In fact, doctors sometimes treat suspected patients had attacked early stages of the disease gout. For the first time this attack very short time and heal themselves, often patients berobat to masseurs and thought it time to heal due to the sequence / massage. But, without being treated or even massaged gout attacks first stage will disappear itself.

After the first attack, the sufferer will go on interkritikal gout. In this situation patients in good health over time. Period of time between a person and the other person is different. There are only a year, others up to 10 years, but the average range 1-2 years. Long period of time causes the person to forget that he had suffered an attack of gout or arthritis was previously thought that the first attack unrelated to the symptoms of gout.

Signs and symptoms of the Second Stage
Symptoms or signs of uric acid is referred to as the second stage of acute intermittent gout arthritis. After passing the interkritikal gout for years without symptoms means, patients will enter this stage, marked by attacks of arthritis or inflammation special. A sufferer will often attack (relapse) the distance between the attacks and the subsequent attacks grew close and long-term attacks grew, and the number of joints that attacked more and more. The signs and symptoms of gout sufferers this second level just realized if he was hit by the disease gout. Handling on this second level course will be more difficult rather than at the first stage.

Signs And Symptoms of acid veins Third Level
Gout symptoms referred to as the third stage of chronic gout arthritis bertofus. This stage occurs when patients have been suffering for 10 years or more. This will happen at a bump-bump around inflamed joints are often referred to as tofus. Tofus this form hard lumps containing limestone powder as a deposit of monosodium uric crystals. Tofus will cause damage to the joints and the surrounding bone. Tofus on foot when the large size and many will result in patients not able to use the shoes again.

The following are some ways to lower uric acid levels:
     1. Avoid consuming alcohol
     2. Reduce drinking caffeinated beverages such as coffee, tea, and soda drinks
     3. Reduce fatty foods and shellfish.
     4. Drinking plenty of water is beneficial for uric acid excretion.
     5. Avoid eating mushrooms, spinach, green beans, eggplant, cauliflower, and asparagus.
     6. Multiply to consume fruits and vegetables are beneficial for lowering uric acid.
     7. If you are overweight, immediately adjust your diet so you can lose weight that is capable of causing the uric acid.

Dietary restrictions gout sufferers  
Offal: kidney, spleen, tripe, intestines, liver, lung and brain
Extracts such as shredded meat and jerky
The food that has been canned (example: corned beef, sardines)
Mutton, beef, horse meat
Ducks, geese and turkeys
Legumes: soybeans (including processed products such as tempeh, tauco, oncom, soy milk), peanuts, green beans, bean sprouts, melinjo, chips
Vegetables: cauliflower, spinach, asparagus, green beans, mushrooms, cassava leaves, papaya leaves, kale
Cheese, eggs, cream, ice cream, broth or gravy is thick
Foods that are fried or cooked bersantan or using margarine / butter