Uric acid has now become a "common disease" of urban people.
Although compared with the "three highs" such as high blood sugar, high blood pressure, and high blood lipids, the "fourth highest" high uric acid is not much valued.
However, the number of patients with this disease has surpassed that of diabetes, reaching 120 million, and the prevalence rate is more than ten times that of more than 20 years ago, and its epidemic rate is comparable to that of Chinese housing prices.
If the uric acid is high and cannot be controlled in time, it is likely to bring about the problem of gout over time, which will form a huge harm to health.
For normal people, the level of uric acid in the body should be in a state of dynamic equilibrium, that is, the content of uric acid generated and the content of uric acid excreted should be roughly the same.
Therefore, if uric acid cannot be excreted, it is bound to be a problem with the metabolic process of uric acid.
What parts of the body have problems that prevent uric acid from being excreted normally?
Generally speaking, uric acid is mainly metabolized by the kidneys, excreted with urine, if there is a problem in the kidney area, it will lead to decreased kidney function, which is bound to cause uric acid to be excreted in time, and finally the symptoms of high uric acid appear.
Of course, there is also a small part of uric acid excreted through the intestine, if there is a problem with the intestine, it may also cause the problem of uric acid not being excreted.
If you can monitor your uric acid level abnormally at the first time, you can help everyone find problems in the body in time and avoid delaying treatment.
What abnormal changes in life indicate that the body needs to lower uric acid?
First, the body appears edema
People with high uric acid, because uric acid will form crystals in the body, when the crystals accumulate to a certain amount, it will cause the problem of obstruction of the renal tubules.
After the function of the renal tubule is affected, it is bound to cause problems in water metabolism.
At first, it may only be the case of edema in the eye area, and as the disease worsens, symptoms of edema will slowly appear throughout the body, which is extremely harmful to the body.
Second, there is a lot of foam in the urine
As we all know, uric acid is mainly accompanied by urine excretion, if the uric acid value is high, it is bound to cause abnormalities in urine, and the common is that there will be foamy urine.
The foamy urine caused by high uric acid is not easy to dissipate, which is also a very obvious feature of it.
3. Joint pain
A very typical symptom of gout patients is joint pain.
Due to the crystals produced by the high level of uric acid in the body, if deposited in the joints, it will cause people to have symptoms of joint pain, which will seriously affect the health of the body.
Especially at night, the pain in the patient's joints will be more obvious, and in severe cases, it will be accompanied by swelling.
Fourth, dizziness
Uric acid is at a high level for a long time, which will form a certain damage to cerebral blood vessels, affect blood circulation in the brain, and eventually cause patients to have symptoms of dizziness.
Of course, the phenomenon of dizziness is very common, not necessarily caused by high uric acid, but if there is a situation of high uric acid itself, it should still attract enough attention.
5. Frequent thirst
People with high uric acid will also often feel thirsty.
This is due to the accumulation of nephrotoxins due to high uric acid, which affects kidney function, which is manifested in the feeling that people have a dry mouth and dry tongue, and drinking water cannot significantly alleviate this symptom.
Uric acid is also related to weight
In fact, high uric acid is not necessarily eaten.
As mentioned earlier, the reason why people have high uric acid is mainly because the body has problems with purine and uric acid metabolism, and if the intake of high purine food is strictly controlled, in fact, the effect is not large.
At present, the blood uric acid level exceeds 540, regardless of whether I have gout and other symptoms, I need to actively use drugs, if combined with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases or glucose lipid metabolism abnormalities, 420 is the starting line for starting drug treatment.
Clinically, many overweight people also have high blood uric acid, which can be appropriately reduced after reasonable weight control, and the decline is more reasonable than that of controlling diet.
Among the factors that cause elevated uric acid, kidney disease, hypertension, hyperlipidemia and diabetes are the culprits, and such people need to control the relevant basal metabolism, and then cooperate with exercise to lose weight, in order to effectively reduce uric acid levels.