Food that contains high levels of purines produces more uric acid, so start by avoiding those if you suffer from gout. She lists red meat, offal and sweetbreads, gravy, stock cubes and yeast extracts such as Vegemite on her no-go list.
If a bee stings your dog again, first look to see if the stinger is still in the skin. It resembles a small black sac. You can brush it off with a finger, scrape it out with a fingernail or grasp it with tweezers and pull it out.
The same is true for wasps. So most bees and wasps can sting you, pull the stinger out of your skin, and fly off before you can yell Ouch!. Solitary bees, bumblebees, and wasps do not die when they sting you. In honey bee workers, the stinger has fairly large, backward-facing barbs on the lancets.