red wine & gout

[r. o’hara]

Is red wine going to trigger gout like beer does?
Thanks, R. O’Hara

[Keith Taylor]

That’s a great question R. O?Hara. I’m going to need more information to answer it properly

First, let’s start with your Personal Gout Profile.

It’s great that you’ve started to put some information in your profile. Can I make a suggestion?

You say: “I’m now on gout medicine”
That’s good because it tells me you have been diagnosed with gout and you are actively getting treatment. So I can help you better, I need to know what you have been prescribed. Also dates are quite important in making your profile useful as time goes by. Can you amend that to say exactly what medicine you are taking, the daily dose, and when you started? Something like a single line that says:

8th Feb 2015 started 100mg allopurinol daily.

In future, if your meds change, you can add another line such as:
6th March 2015 allopurinol increased to 200mg daily.

As far as the alcohol goes, red wine is generally better than beer. But I don’t want to leave it there. This forum is all about you, not general principles that might or might not apply to you. Some gout patients find wine is better than beer. Some find that complete abstinence helps (poor beggars 🙁 !). I believe that alcohol has very little to do with gout. I’ve got gout under control now, with allopurinol. Before that, I never noticed any particular drink triggering a gout attack, and I often felt much better after drinking beer. Different people have different reactions, but there is always a way to deal with gout problems – if we have enough information. Can you can describe the problems you have had with beer? Sometimes it isn’t the type of alcohol that’s the issue. For instance, alcohol can lead to dehydration, which is very bad for gout. By remembering to drink non-alcoholic beverages after alcohol, you might reduce the problems.

Sorry I can’t be more specific, but there is no single rule that applies to all gout sufferers.

I’d like to turn your question round, and say: which do you prefer – red wine or beer? Then we can work together to make sure you can enjoy what you like, without making your gout worse. 😆

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