Do you know how many gout patients are present on the mainland? About 80 million people!
Not only that, but there are nearly 170 million gout "reserves" on the mainland: patients with hyperuricemia!
Yes, gout has long since gone from a rare disease in the early days of the Founding of the People's Republic of China to a common disease, and it has become one of the most high-prevalent types of arthritis diseases on the mainland.
The reason for this is that although the incidence of gout is related to factors such as age, genetics, and gender, it is more affected by acquired factors, including weight, unhealthy diet and living habits.
Affected by various bad behaviors of the day after tomorrow, the patient has metabolic disorders, blood uric acid level metabolism imbalance, a large amount of uric acid in the body accumulated, and precipitated urate crystals, deposited in the patient's joints, eventually causing the onset of acute gout.
Because of this, if you want to prevent the emergence of gout, you must first adjust from the aspect of life. If you don't want gout to find you in the future, it is necessary to do the following four things:
1. Weight control: According to the current clinical data, gout has a significant weight bias, and the more obese people are, the greater the possibility of gout.
This is so because obesity increases free fatty acids, and it also affects the activity of xanthine oxidase, which in turn increases the production of uric acid.
Moreover, obesity may also be combined with multiple problems such as high triglycerides and insulin resistance, which will inhibit the ability of the kidneys to metabolize uric acid through multiple channels, resulting in hyperuricemia and gout. Therefore, if you want to stay away from gout, it is necessary to control your weight;
2, healthy diet: the purpose of healthy diet is mainly two, the first is to control weight gain, reduce the risk of gout attacks.
The second is to stay away from foods with hyperpurines and avoid hyperuricemia. You know, the terminal product of purine metabolism is actually uric acid.
Therefore, if hyperuricemia has occurred, it is necessary to stay away from such foods, such as red meat, animal offal, seafood, bone broth, etc., which are typical high purine foods and should be eaten less in life;
3. Abstinence from alcohol: excessive drinking is actually an independent risk factor for gout attacks. Because some drinks originally contain very high purine components, such as beer, rice wine and so on.
In addition, after alcohol enters the human body, it will stimulate the body to synthesize lactic acid components, and lactic acid will competitively inhibit the metabolism of renal tubular uric acid.
As it continues, alcohol will also increase the degradation of ATP, resulting in the body producing a large amount of adenosine monophosphate, and the amount of uric acid produced by the body will increase.
In mainland China, there are many patients with gout who suddenly have a seizure because of a large amount of alcohol at one time. Therefore, if you want to stay away from gout, it is necessary to quit drinking in time;
4, pay attention to water supplementation: uric acid metabolism of this substance, mainly in the kidneys to complete. They enter the kidneys as they filter blood into the kidneys and are involved in the production of urine, eventually excreting from the body with the urine.
The production of urine is naturally inseparable from the help of moisture. Therefore, science recommends that the daily water intake of adults should be maintained at about 1500-2000ml.
Finally, I would like to remind everyone that the development from hyperuricemia to gout does not happen overnight. If we don't want to be approached by gout, from now on, we should stay away from unhealthy living and eating habits and avoid the appearance of hyperuricemia.
If hyperuricemia has been combined, relevant treatment should be carried out under the advice of the doctor to avoid difficult treatment of gout.