Foods to Avoid With Gout - a Man's Experience

What are some foods to avoid with gout?

I know a man who has gout. It never fails that whenever he goes on a vacation he comes home with a foot that looks like a horse stomped on it a few times. It’s probably just as painful, too.

Upon his return from one such vacation, he told me about all the foods he ate: lobster tail smothered in butter, fillet mignon as big as his fist and all kinds of pork bathed in cream sauces.

In addition to that, he would drink alcohol like it was water! He told me how he would dip into the champagne fountain at lunch and keep going until he fell into his bed at night.

The kicker is that this man is generally one of the healthiest people I know. He eats healthy foods, works out and keeps his alcohol consumption to a minimum, but apparently, things change while he is on vacation. All the foods that he ordinarily stays away from become his “vacation diet”. Turns out that all the foods he so lavishly enjoys while on his getaways are precisely foods to avoid with gout sufferers.

Research shows that foods high in purines cause the body to create more uric acid and can actually cause gout to flare up, so it’s important that people who suffer from this type of arthritis avoid them. Foods to avoid with gout include:

• Red meat
  
  
• Seafood, such as mackerel, sardines, oysters, scallops and salmon
  
  
• Lots of high protein white meat like poultry and pork
  
  
• Organ meats, such as liver and kidneys
  
  
• Alcohol, especially beer (because of the yeast)
  
  
• Asparagus, cauliflower, lentils and spinach
  
  
• High fat dairy products such as ice cream, heavy whipped cream, whole milk and butter

It turns out that my friend would eat all of these foods to avoid with gout, and more, when he went on vacation. The symptoms didn’t start until he was ready to come home because it would take the body some time to produce the extra uric acid that would soon turn into crystals in the joints. By the time he arrived home, though, the first joint of his big toe would always be swollen, red and, according to him, extremely painful.

Once he was back on his normally healthy diet for about a week and living the way he was used to, the symptoms would subside and he didn’t suffer another flare up until the next time he went away.

This is because his normal diet contained a great balance of nutrients, and a great deal less of the foods to avoid with gout. My friend didn’t normally eat too much of any one thing.

He might have some chicken for lunch, but he would choose a vegetarian dinner. He would eat salmon and other high fat fish, but not with butter and not more than one or two times a week. In his opinion, the biggest contributor to his gout flare ups was the excessive amount of alcohol he would drink while on his getaways.

Since his last major gout flare-up, my friend has gone on a couple of vacations without coming home with the telltale swollen foot. I asked him the other day how he’s managing his gout and he reported that he’s watching what he eats. “All things in moderation,” he says, “even on vacation.”

And that certainly includes the foods to avoid with gout.

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