However, gout patients are special, and clothes should be increased or decreased at any time according to the weather changes. This is because long-term or intermittent high uric acid increases the osmotic pressure of blood, inhibits the phagocytosis of white blood cells and reduces the body's resistance. Especially when gout patients have complications, the body's metabolism is seriously disordered and various defense functions are missing. Reactions to invading microorganisms, including neutralization of chemical toxins, phagocytosis, intracellular sterilization, serum opsonin, cellular immunity, etc., are all inhibited, so they are easy to be infected and seriously infected. Moreover, gout patients often have vascular and neuropathy, which leads to microcirculation disturbance, poor local blood supply and decreased tissue oxygen concentration, which affects the response of local tissues to infection, is conducive to the growth of anaerobic bacteria, and is easy to cause tissue necrosis and gangrene. Cold can cause vasospasm and slow blood flow, which is easy to induce cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. A cold can also increase blood uric acid and aggravate gout. Therefore, gout patients are not easy to get cold in autumn.
In addition, the autumn climate is dry, so we should pay attention to hydration. Old people's own skin function declines, sebaceous gland secretion decreases, and high blood uric acid dehydrates the skin for a long time, which is prone to skin itching.