Many elderly people are prone to gout. There are many reasons for gout. First of all, it may be caused by careless diet and unhealthy daily life. And once gout attacks, the joints in the body will feel stiff and begin to feel pain. Generally speaking, what should I do when I have gout?

First, how to treat gout

1, used for activities

When gout attacks, although there will be joint pain, it is still necessary to move your joints more, exercise and stretch your joints to reduce uric acid deposition in the joints and eliminate uric acid precipitation in the body. Gout patients also need daily exercise. You can't give up exercise because of the feeling of pain, but it will make more uric acid precipitate in the body.

Step 2 adjust your diet

Gout patients are often gout caused by improper diet. In alkaline environment, the accumulated uric acid is more soluble. Therefore, we should eat more fruits and vegetables in our daily life to make our body alkaline, dissolve uric acid crystals in our body, and excrete uric acid, so as to relieve our pain.

Step 3 massage and foot bath

Gout patients can also soak their feet and massage more every day. For places suffering from gout, more massage is needed to relieve joint pain. Massage for 30 minutes in daily life can relieve body pain. In addition, you can soak your feet, which can relieve gout.

Second, how to prevent gout

1, eat less seafood and beer.

Eating seafood and drinking beer often is delicious, but uric acid is too high is easy to accumulate in the body. Therefore, in the daily diet, we should eat less seafood and drink less beer to reduce uric acid crystallization in the body.

Step 2 drink plenty of water

Although in many diseases, it is necessary to drink more water. However, in the case of uric acid is too high, it is also necessary to drink more water to reduce the uric acid content in the body and reduce the crystallization of uric acid in the body, thus alleviating gout. Gout is a disease that is difficult to treat after suffering. In fact, after suffering from this disease, we should pay attention to the treatment of life conditioning, which requires patients to know more about how to treat and recuperate this disease. The following is mainly aimed at everyone. What about gout?

1. Apply an ice pack to the affected area. In the treatment of gout, swelling and pain will be the problems of the affected parts of the body. At this time, if you want to relieve the pain symptoms, you need to pay attention to applying an ice pack to the affected area to relieve the fever symptoms and help the patient relieve the pain.

2. Properly move the joints. Proper joint exercise is also a method to treat gout, including fingers, toes, knees and elbows. The benefits of regular joint exercise are really many, which can avoid excessive deposition of uric acid crystals at the joints. This is a good adjuvant therapy, which is beneficial to treatment.

3. Control your daily diet. Controlling daily diet is also a way to help patients effectively treat gout. What you need to pay attention to in your daily diet is to eat less high-purity food and pay attention to drink more water. At the same time, we should pay attention to strict taboos such as quitting smoking and drinking. This is helpful for the treatment of gout and the prevention of recurrence.

4. Stabilize uric acid in the body. After the serum uric acid of gout patients rises to a certain extent, it will cause various complications in the body. Therefore, patients need to pay attention to control uric acid to achieve stability during treatment, which is also a method to treat gout.

The above is mainly about how to do gout in detail. Of course, it is necessary to actively appear from the etiology and do a good job in timely and effective treatment of gout. In addition to drugs, treatment methods also need to be used, such as controlling daily diet, properly moving joints and stabilizing uric acid in the body.