Gout and diuretics?

[beejaytoo]

Anyone had a gout attack after being on a diuretic for a while?

[SRMGrandma Volunteer]

Yes, there diuretic induced gout is real and is usually treated with a drug called Allopurinal. That said, gout is one of the ways your body is trying to tell you are probably not eating the healthiest diet. The more we listen to the signals and make changes the healthier we can become. Be well!

[beejaytoo in reply to SRMGrandma]

Well I eat raspberries, Strawberries, cherries and nectarines. I also eat crab, shellfish, oily fish and vegetables. Also chicken thighs and lamb and beef.

Not in large quantities as I have lost 3 stone inthe last two years. No beer but about 3 small glasses of wine a week.

However I was in France when the attack started in my big left toe joint and I had been eating fish soup, mussels and sweetbreads, liver and liver pate.......

[SRMGrandma Volunteer]

Ah, that probably explains it. Liver, mussels, organ meats are notorious for causing a flare up!

[David21]

High purine foods (which I have mostly cut out of my diet and reduced uric acid level by 20%) are : game; oily fish; ofal; beer worse than wine; possibly lentils with cherries being about the only positive

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My hubby... Who has high blood pressure and therefore is on a diuretic. But then he does love his beer and wine too! In fact, I think it's when he has sardines on toast he gets gout, they are a big trigger. If you read up you can find all sorts of foods high in purines that you should maybe avoid or eat less off. And cherries are supposed to be very good for you

[Offcut]

Do not do Diuretics hits my kidneys to hard. But I do suffer gout I found mushrooms seem to trigger it for me?

However when I broke my knuckle on my big toe were I get gout flair ups. The bone doctor told me that trauma to a joint can bring it on as well. And it did! The arthritis in my feet are not helping it either

I do tend to get more in the summer months?

Be Well

[beejaytoo in reply to Offcut]

Just seen my doc who has prescribed Colchine?

Low dose and just for 6 days.

onwards and upwards.......

[beejaytoo in reply to beejaytoo]

Colchicine.

[Offcut in reply to beejaytoo]

patient.co.uk/medicine/Colc... might help with it?

I am on ETORICOXIB

[profandy]

Too much sweating can also cause gout (dehydration gout) and aspirin exacerbates it also. I have had a number of episodes and have also managed to reduce the effects by drinking lots of water as soon as the symptoms show. The food causes of gout are also important so stick to a balanced diet