Can gout patients eat peanuts? Why?

1. Gout patients can eat peanuts, but only in small quantities when the gout condition is under control and the patient's blood uric acid is stable. Gout is mainly a rheumatic disease characterized by hyperuricemia caused by reduced excretion of uric acid in human urine or disorders of purine metabolism in the body. Gout patients should avoid high purine food, such as seafood, coarse grains, animal offal and so on. Peanuts contain a small amount of purine and rich in fat, after consumption may increase the patient's cholesterol content is not good for the patient. Gout patients once in an acute attack, it is recommended to try to low purine diet, such as drinking more water, eat more eggs, milk, vegetables, fruits and so on. In addition peanuts in addition to containing purines, but also belong to the high-calorie food, high-calorie food contains relatively high fat, will increase the risk of obesity.

2. Gout eat peanuts must be eaten in moderation. If the patient is in an acute attack of gout, it is not recommended to eat peanuts, so as not to aggravate the body's purine content and gout symptoms. Because peanuts contain more fat, more salt will be added during processing, so some patients will add sugar to make salty, creamy, sweet and other different flavors of peanuts. Patients with high blood fat, high blood pressure and diabetes must not eat too much. Usual time labor should not be excessive, should be combined with work and rest, the spirit is not too nervous, usually the best not to drink alcohol, and do not drink strong tea, coffee and some other carbonated beverages.

3. Gout patients should eat less, especially during acute arthritis attacks. Because peanuts are a kind of food belonging to the nuts, and this kind of food contains moderate purine. Moderate purine content of food is defined as 50 to 150 mg of purine per 100 grams of food, and gout patients point out that they should eat less or no moderate purine content of food. Such foods include various legumes, nuts such as peanuts, cashews, sesame seeds, and also meat. Therefore, when the condition is acute, try to eat less or no food, you can eat more alkaline food.