Your doctor has probably already informed you that you need to make some changes in your diet to avoid painful attacks with your gout.
There is a list of foods to avoid that cause gout to flare up.
No matter how difficult it might be for you to avoid these foods it is in your best interest to avoid them.
You should make yourself very familiar with the foods you need to avoid.
This will definitely save you some unnecessary pain from a gout attack.
Some foods might not cause you to have an attack and others will.
However, it is best if you omit all the possible foods from your diet that have the potential to aggravate your gout.
It is possible that you can control your gout with a change in diet.
In many gout patients they do not have to take medication to control their symptoms, instead they use their diet.
In other cases it is possible that the patient will only need to take minimal amounts of medication to treat the gout.
Here are a few of the foods you should avoid eating altogether.
* hearts * seafood * red meats * kidneys * gizzards * gravy * fish roe * mussels * lentils * alcohol * sardines * peas * anchovies * mackerel * game meats * tongue * mushrooms * herring * sweetbreads * lentils * spinach * scallops * shrimp * yeast * asparagus * beans In addition to watching the foods you consume, if you are over weight you need to take the extra weight off.
You can do this with moderate exercise, increase in water consumption and a change in diet.
It is important that you keep yourself at a healthy weight.
It is likely that you will suffer from gout attacks if your weight does not stay at a healthy number.
Drastic fluctuations in weight might cause an increase in the production of uric acids.
Now that you know the foods to avoid that cause gout to flare up you need to keep a list of these foods with you at all times.
Use the list as a guide while you are grocery shopping and even eating out.
You might want to keep a copy of the list in our wallet for reference, just to keep you on the safe and painless side.