To achieve an immediate therapeutic effect, people suffering from a disease such as arthritis prescribe dietitians. From medical practice, there are many cases where a positive therapeutic result was obtained if a patient has kidney or joint injuries thanks to a strict diet. This is explained by the fact that the diet for this disease helps to reduce the production of purines of exogenous origin
Adherence to a strict diet for arthritis affecting the joints of the legs is not determined at all by strict fasting, neither during its recurrent periodic attacks nor in the period between them. It is necessary to carefully choose the foods whose use is essential for the patient, which is an important point in the treatment.
People with arthritis need to eat a specific diet to help stabilize uric acid levels. In any person, by a routine examination, you may accidentally find an increase in the indicators for this parameter. In this case, you must adhere to the diet in the diet. This approach to the preparation of the patient's menu leads to a significant decrease in the probability of recurrence of attacks of the disease, allows you to prevent the cumbersome deposition of purines, namely, a significant amount of their compounds in organs and tissues.
Principles of Nutritional Therapy for Arthritis
A patient with arthritis should eat systematically and divide the entire daily portion of food into at least 4 meals. This will help stop the process of saturating blood serum with purine bases. Under no circumstances is it recommended to overeat with arthritis, otherwise it is possible to increase the patient's body weight, which negatively affects the joints during movement. But hunger should not be allowed either. The body weight of obese people should be reduced gradually, but not more than 2 kg per. Month.
During the day, an arthritis patient needs approx. 2 liters of water during remission and at least 3 liters when an exacerbation of the disease occurs. It should not be forgotten that the use of mineral water containing alkali positively promotes the removal of urates from the patient's body.
Prohibited foods for arthritis
A very important point is to choose the right diet for an arthritis patient. It is necessary to minimize the amount of the products that contain several purine bases. These include the following:
- broth made from meat, fish and mushrooms (purines in them are in easily digestible form)
- offal lungs and brains, liver and kidneys
- meat-based sauces and preserves;
- animal fat;
- garden crops of beans and peas, beans and lentils, soybeans;
- smoked meat, all types of sausages.
There are foods that affect the acidity of the body. To prevent a sharp increase in the amount of acid in the tissues, you should also exclude foods such as:
- spices, mustard, pepper, horseradish
- vegetable sauces;
- spinach, fresh herbs, sorrel;
- salted fish and various dishes containing it
- beverages containing alcohol (in particular wine and beer)
- products containing significant amounts of butter and cocoa
- salty and spicy cheeses.
It is necessary to limit patients' intake of table salt and fat to prevent the accumulation of urate in the tissues.
Under no circumstances should you eat fried foods for arthritis.
List of foods allowed for arthritis
Purine bases are found in low amounts in milk, Swiss cheese, chicken eggs, bread, caviar, walnuts and hazelnuts. You can eat millet and carrots, pearl barley and buckwheat. During the diet, you can eat a small portion of fish or meat prepared by baking or cooking once every seven days.
Increasing the amount of fluid you drink can help the patient get rid of uric acid compounds. In this case, use only purified or boiled water.
It is imperative to reduce the nutritional level of food consumed by patients with arthritis. Especially with concomitant obesity. With this disease, you can include small amounts of tomatoes in your diet. From spices, it is recommended to use only bay leaf for the preparation of diet dishes.
Fruits and vegetables are very useful in cases of arthritis, but only in raw form. Sometimes the patient needs fasting days. At the same time, it is recommended to drink only fruit and vegetable juices during the day and the use of ascorbic acid should also be included.
Fasting arthritis
During exacerbations of this unpleasant disease, some patients decide independently of the fast by fasting to cleanse their body of excess purines. But this decision in the diet is completely unjustified. With this practice, there is a sharp deterioration of the patient's general condition. During hunger, food intake in the body stops, making it impossible to supply energy needs, resulting in the consumption of own reserves beginning. In this case, the most readily available material is protein compounds. It is for this reason that the level of uric acid in the blood serum at the beginning of fasting rapidly increases and is deposited in the synovial membrane in diseased joints, as well as in tissues of the human body. It all ends with an exacerbation of arthritis.
The following also happens. The synovium of the joint accumulates significant deposits of acid salts. In parallel with this process, urate penetrates into the glomeruli of the patient's renal tubules, which contributes to the emergence of an acute form of a disease such as gigty nephropathy.