Can you eat chard with gout?

Gout patients can eat chard, chard is a low purine food, will not cause a significant increase in uric acid. Gout is a crystal-associated arthritis caused by hyperuricemia, the basis for the development of hyperuricemia, because of long-term hyperuricemia, causing uric acid crystals deposited around the joints and cause a sterile inflammation of the joints, the typical performance is the first metatarsophalangeal joint redness, swelling, heat, pain and dysfunction, but also the hand, knee, ankle and other joints swelling and pain. Some patients may develop gout stones, which can seriously affect the function of the joints. The key to the treatment of gout is to keep blood uric acid within the target range, which is generally recommended to be below 300 μmol/L, so as to minimize the probability of gout recurrence.