Now that the living conditions are better, more and more people are suffering from gout, and once the gout attacks, it is simply difficult to sleep.
Many gout patients pay special attention to diet in order to avoid gout attacks, but there is still no shortage of such cases, that is, although they have strictly controlled their diet, eat less meat, and do not drink alcohol, they are still deeply troubled by gout.
So what exactly causes gout attacks?
1. High purine food
Seafood, red meat, and animal offal are common high-purine foods, and gout patients must eat less.
Usually when cooking meat food, it is best to blanch it with water and then stir-fry, so that part of the purine inside the meat can be dissolved in water to reduce the intake of purines.
In addition to meat, peppers, ginger, curry, mustard these common seasonings are also easy to cause gout attacks, gout patients to eat less, if you want to increase appetite, you can choose balsamic vinegar and other condiments, will be safer and healthier.
2. Insufficient drinking water
Gout is usually caused by too high uric acid levels in the body, therefore, adding enough water to the body can promote uric acid excretion, when the concentration of uric acid in the blood is reduced, gout is naturally not easy to attack.
Gout patients need to drink more water than normal people, it is recommended that gout patients drink 2 to 3 liters of water per day to achieve the effect of reducing uric acid.
In addition, we should also pay attention to drinking water as much as possible, do not pour a large cup at once, and drink slowly to allow the body to fully absorb water.
3. Drink alcohol
After alcohol enters the human body, after liver metabolism, the products produced by conversion will cause the level of lactic acid in the body to rise, inhibit the excretion of uric acid, uric acid levels will rise, it will cause gout, and uric acid crystals will accumulate in the kidneys and joints to form tophi.
4. High-sugar diet
Although the high-sugar diet does not contain purines, the fructose in it is also the culprit of gout. Because the metabolites produced by fructose in the human body will promote the synthesis of uric acid, it will also affect insulin levels and inhibit uric acid excretion.
5. The movement is unreasonable
Exercise is a double-edged sword, the amount of exercise is too small, easy to lead to poor uric acid metabolism, causing hyperuricemia.
Excessive exercise can also cause lactic acid accumulation, which is not conducive to the excretion of uric acid, which can cause gout.
Therefore, maintaining an appropriate amount of exercise can reduce the level of uric acid in the blood, stabilize blood pressure, reduce blood lipids, and avoid factors such as hypertension, hyperlipidemia, diabetes, obesity and other factors that induce gout.
6. Do not pay attention to protecting the joints
Gout has a characteristic, that is, joints that have been damaged will be more likely to occur gout. So many people start gout in the first metatarsophalangeal joint, or the knee, ankle, wrist, finger and elbow joints.
These joints are joints that are used frequently, and over time, some damage will naturally accumulate, causing changes in the joint structure, and uric acid is more likely to be deposited on the surface of such joints, just like after there are plaques in the blood vessels, it will be more likely to have blood clots.
Many factors can lead to gout attacks, such as high purine food, insufficient water, drinking, high-sugar diet, unreasonable exercise, lack of attention to protect joints, etc. will lead to increased uric acid levels in the body, inducing gout.
To avoid gout, we must stay away from the above precipitating factors in daily life and develop good living habits.