Husband has chronic gout difficulty controling it please help
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Hello we live in Indonesia and my husband has chronic gout diagnosed before we moved here. He is on Allopurinol 600mg BID and Prednisone 20 mg BID. This seems to control it but for obvious reasons we do not want him on pred longterm. The doctors here cannot do a uric acid test and give him some local harbs which do not help. He does not tolerate colchicine well. We are considering adding probenicid? He has radically changed his diet but nothing has seemed to help and one day on lower pred dosages and he is crippled.
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jx41870 victoria_30790
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Hi Victoria, sorry about your husband's problems. Have you tried celery, and celery seed? Don't know if you can get either there, I know a few years ago it was hard to get a lot of common nutritional stuff there.
Cannot do a uric acid test?
For serious cases of gout it's not just diet, but stay on it, even when it is diet it can take weeks and months for the uric acid to flush out.
Of course you don't want to be on the prednisone a long time, and it's hard to get off it once you've been on for a while, that can turn into a whole project by itself. Might be able to reduce the dose slowly down to around 5mg, every little bit helps.
ted64745 victoria_30790
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ann66423 victoria_30790
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Make sure his limbs are not cold or he doesn't overheat either. For instance he should wear socks or cover his legs even if hes not feeling cold and not wanting to do it. Also, if hes really really hot and sweaty, he needs to cool off and try to prevent dehydration which will cause issues. Be aware of these opposing temperature issues and the effects on the body and this should help some.
andrew41895 victoria_30790
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I've been using high potency Bromelain (GDU > 2800) which relieves gout pain quickly. Its works well, and even better when combined with colchicine. Bromelain is a pineapple enzyme that dissolves uric acid, and reduces inflammation. Because it dissolves uric acid, it temporarily blood reduces uric acid as well.
I tried celery seed, but didn't notice any relief.
pazzini256 victoria_30790
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Hello,
First of all, your husband has to reduce (or better stop) consuming:
- Meat (e.g. chicken, beef, pork)
- Seafood (e.g. fish, crab, shrimp)
- Inner meat (e.g. liver, lung, kidney, sausage)
- All kind of food/snack which has sugar (sucrose) and fructose
- All kind of drink and soft drink which has sugar or fructose
- Alcohol drink
To reduce the inflammation and pain, take ibuprofen.
To temporary reduce uric acid, take Allopurinol.
Remember, the most important thing is the diet I mentioned above.
I don't ask your husband to extremely stop eating them. But he has to reduce the consumption.
Basically, your husband's kidneys have exceeded uric acid processing capacity.
By doing the diet, the kidney will be able to flush out all uric acid from the blood.