Okay, you have this pain in your big toe. It’s excruciating! It’s twice its regular size and it’s so tender you simply cannot touch it. You don’t know what it is and you don’t remember dropping a hammer on it. You want relief, or some good painkillers. I think I may know what you have.

Gout

Gout is a type of arthritis that can strike at any moment, inconveniencing your life without an invitation. The most common area that gout affects is the big toe, but gout can also develop in the ankles, heels, knees, elbows, wrists, and fingers. Its excruciating and throbbing pain hits at night in most cases. Gout turns the skin at a hot temperature, leaving the affected joint swollen and very tender to the touch. Gout’s debilitating effects can last for days and sometimes over a week.

First, let’s look at what some of the common causes of gout:

• Alcohol consumption
• Diuretics
• Fatigue
• Gender-males are more susceptible
• Hereditary factors
• High blood pressure
• Kidney failure
• Obesity
• Physical stress
• Weight

A combination of these causes or even just one can trigger gout.

You have gout. You know this because your big toe is so painful that even your bed sheet draped over it causes tremendous and intolerable pain. You’re not alone because this is a common symptom of gout.

You want relief

I have seven useful home remedies for gout so you can get rid of this pain and go on with your life gout-free.

1. Let’s look in the medicine cabinet. Ibuprofen targets the inflammation around the affected joint that actually causes the pain. Ibuprofen minimizes the inflammation to give you relief.

2. Let’s look in the kitchen to find relief first. Eat an apple every day. The malic acid in apples can neutralize the uric acid that gout creates and relieves the symptoms of gout.

3. Still in the kitchen, we learn that drinking plenty of water is helpful to avoid gout attacks. Water can help flush excess uric acid from your system before it can do any more harm.

4. Let’s look at one more culprit in the kitchen. Avoid alcohol. Alcohol increases the uric acid production and inhibits secretions and this leads to gout attacks in some people.

5. Let’s look in the freezer. Apply ice to the affected joint only if it’s not too tender to touch. In just 10 minutes, the ice will have a soothing and numbing effect.

6. Let’s look in the bedroom. Rest and relaxation is very important to speed the healing process.
7. Try natural remedies.

You’re armed with 7 useful home remedies to relieve your gout, so what are you waiting for? You don’t have to suffer with gout; you can live your life without the pain caused by that pesky gout.