Question blue so??? ?nlq chaos jpa : My husband is diabetic now, but it also has gout ?
With gout, the proteins are poor, carbohydrates are bad with diabetes. I have no idea what to eat Best Answer:
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his best option would be to see a nutritionist. One of his doctors can put up with a little ‘around your area.
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A lot of fruit and vegetables.
You have to be careful with vegetables though. Spinach, mushrooms, Asparagus and a few others are packed with purines which cause gout attacks.
Comment by Thumbs Down Magnet — November 27, 2010 @ 7:45 am
His gastroenterologist or rheumatologist should have a list of gout-forbidden foods, and they’re not all that restrictive. For example, I can’t eat bivalves like clams or oysters, but shrimp are OK. Liver is out, but most others are fine.Besides, allopurinol is a good preventative, and colchicine will handle most attacks. Cranberries and particularly cherries and their juices are very good treatments. And diet CONTROL, not mere dumb prohibition, is the cornerstone to treating both of them.
Comment by odzookers — November 27, 2010 @ 8:38 am
The diet for gout is awkward to say the least, but he must eat. There is no ideal diet. The key is to avoid foods known to be high in “Purines”, esp. beer, and to eat other foods with purines only occasionally or in moderation. There are lists that tell you which foods are high and low. If you don’t have a copy of it, ask your doctor for one. Other than that, exercise for both diabetes and gout are very helpful.
Perhaps you can make an appointment with a medical dietician or nutritionist through your hospital or clinic to give you meal planning ideas.
Good luck.
Comment by Joe R — November 27, 2010 @ 9:20 am
I’ve had gout for twenty years. Haven’t had an attack in well over five years. I had to learn the hard way (many times) to take the @#$ % medicine EVERY day. If you don’t you’ll be getting someone to literally carry you to ER for the colchicine IV. I take 300mg allopurinol/day; it’s really cheap and has no side effects for me. I make no diet modifications at all, of course, I don’t have diabetes; that’s a far more “hands-on” and serious disease. There are two types of gout attack PREVENTION medicines that have been used for years:
Allopurinol (brand name – Zyloprim) is prescribed for chronic gout or gouty arthritis and works by affecting the system that manufactures uric acid in the body. It is used to prevent gout attacks, not to treat them once they occur.
Probenecid (brand names – Benemid, Probalan) is prescribed for chronic gout and gouty arthritis. It is used to prevent attacks related to gout, not treat them once they occur. It acts on the kidneys to help the body eliminate uric acid. Probenecid is known as a uricosuric agent.
Good luck to him; both of my parents had diabetes; mom type I and dad type II. The gout is a non-issue once under control.
Comment by Fred S — November 27, 2010 @ 10:10 am
I’m stumped.
What a horrible dilemma. Here, I’ll star this question just in case some of my contacts know what to do. Good luck to you guys!
Blessings
Comment by Vitamin C — November 27, 2010 @ 10:37 am
Here’s some more info. from a fellow gout sufferer… you can pare down the list with what’s bad for diabetes…
Check out goutcure.com, the website is misleading, it’s not a cure for gout but does help. I decided to go with their pills, and delivered with the pills they had alot of good information about what to eat.
This is not a complete list, but the foods that I eat. Sour dairy: cottage cheese, sour cream, plain yogurt (flavored in a smoothie with fruits). Fruits are apples, bananas, oranges, lemon, kiwi, grapes, raisins. Veggies: carrots, potatoes, onions, cabbage. Spices: cumin, tumeric, cayenne, SEA salt, garlic. Brown rice and almonds are a good source of protein.
Drink alot of water: 1 oz for every 2 lbs of body weight. Drink juices that are 100% juice. I like V8 Fusion, it’s got a serving of veggies and fruit in each 8 oz glass.
Now of course you can’t live on the above foods every day of the year, but try to eat more of those than you do the other foods. And then avoid any foods high in purines or that make the body acidic (which it’s hard to find a list of foods that make the body acidic, but the ones above do not).
Comment by JeffKan1 — November 27, 2010 @ 10:48 am