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They usually mean that something has temporarily interfered with the growth of the nail. A period of serious illness can cause horizontal ridges to appear on the nails. But if your joints have been permanently damaged by uric acid crystals, your suffering may continue. What should you be eating and drinking? It probably doesn't make much difference what you eat, but how much you eat certainly makes a difference. Reducing your weight, and reducing your calorie intake, is very likely to reduce the number of attacks of gout that you get Too much alcohol will not make things better.

There are a number of factors, including genetic differences, which make some people produce more uric acid than others, even if they eat identical diets. Some drugs can also cause gout, especially diuretics in the thiazide family - the most commonly used one is called bendrofluazide. Even low doses of aspirin can cause an attack of gout, by affecting the kidneys' ability to get rid of uric acid in the urine Allopurinol blocks the formation of uric acid. If your levels are back to normal, your gout attacks are likely to decrease in number. Uric acid is produced by the breakdown of certain foods that contain protein.

So it is logical to think that a low protein diet will prevent gout But in fact the situation is much more complicated. What should I be doing?Gout is caused by high levels of uric acid in the blood. We all have some uric acid floating around in our bloodstreams, but people who get gout have more than average. Attacks occur when crystals of uric acid precipitate out of the bloodstream and get into the joints. These crystals are tiny, but the pain that they cause can be excruciating. WHAT SHOULD I BE EATING? WHAT SHOULD I BE EATING? I suffer from gout.

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