Gout is no longer just a patent for the elderly. With the change of modern people's eating habits and the neglect of health care, the problem of "gout rejuvenation" is becoming more and more serious. Mao Zanzhi, an orthopedic surgeon, said that after consultation, it was found that 1 high school students were overweight and liked to eat fried food since childhood. According to relevant research reports, uric acid crystals will accumulate in joints and produce a chain inflammatory reaction. If patients merge again, they will produce more free fatty acids because of excessive fat intake, which will aggravate the inflammatory reaction.
Gout and diet
In the face of the continuous holiday before the Spring Festival, which is connected with the Spring Festival, the clinic also found that many office workers in their thirties came to see a doctor because of gout. After testing, the uric acid value exceeded the standard (the normal value was below 7mg). Worryingly, it is inevitable to eat hot pot, fish, meat or drink heartily around the stove. In addition, playing cards and watching TV at home will obviously reduce the amount of exercise and neglect to replenish water in time, which is easy to induce gout.
Mao Zanzhi, an orthopedic surgeon, said that gout patients should pay more attention to maintaining normal life and eating habits. (Photography/Huang Zhiwen) The Causes of Gout
Gout often occurs in the middle of the night, and its symptoms include severe joint pain. Pain is like a gust of wind, which comes and goes quickly, but it is biting and almost impossible to walk. Gout is a disease caused by abnormal uric acid metabolism, excessive uric acid production in the body, or urate deposition on joints due to blocked uric acid excretion. The risk factors of abnormal uric acid metabolism include: eating foods rich in purine, such as animal viscera, beans, seafood such as sardines and mushrooms, drinking hot pot soup and alcohol.
Gout symptom
Dr. Mao Zanzhi said that if you don't pay attention to your diet, you will easily get high uric acid value, which will lead to "hyperuricemia", which is also the chief culprit of gout, which will lead to recurrent gouty acute arthritis, tophus deposition, tophus chronic arthritis and joint deformity, and even endanger the kidneys and cause chronic interstitial nephritis and kidney calculi uric acid.
Gout treatment
Treatment of gout, first-line non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and colchicine are used for acute gout attack. After a period of drug treatment, if the uric acid value is still too high, first-line drugs such as Anle Pulino tablets must be used to reduce the uric acid concentration in the blood. However, we should be careful to prevent the side effects of drugs, including the burden on the liver, rash and Stevenson syndrome. Therefore, drugs must be used under the guidance of doctors to obtain drug safety.
Gout health care
Gout patients should pay more attention to the following daily life and eating habits:
1. Maintain ideal weight: If you are overweight or obese, you should lose weight, but pay attention to the speed of losing weight by 1~2 kg per month. If it is acute, don't lose weight for the time being.
2. Appropriate intake of protein: Under normal circumstances, the ideal body weight intake per kilogram per person per day 1 g protein is appropriate. In acute attack, you should try to choose foods with low purine content, such as eggs, milk, rice, wheat, sweet potatoes, leafy vegetables, melons and vegetables and various fruits. Protein is best supplied entirely with eggs and milk. In the non-acute attack period, we should try to achieve a balanced diet and avoid eating foods with high purine content.
3. Avoid foods rich in purine: reduce the consumption of foods rich in purine, such as animal viscera; Seafood, such as sardines, mackerel and scallops; Meat; Beans; Some vegetables, such as Cruciferae, Lu Xun, spinach and mushrooms.
4. Avoid drinking thick soup: Because purine is soluble in water and the soup contains partially dissolved purine, avoid drinking old fire soup and broth.
5. Avoid alcoholic beverages: alcohol containing purine will also hinder uric acid excretion and increase uric acid concentration in the body.
6. Drink plenty of water: water helps uric acid excrete. It is recommended to drink more than 2 liters of water every day.