Excessive production of uric acid in the body or the excretion of uric acid is affected, which will increase uric acid in the blood, which will coagulate crystals over time.
This can lead to an inflammatory disease called gout, when gout attacks, patients suffer from bone erosion, do not receive effective treatment for a long time, and can also cause joint deformities and even dysfunction.
What common pitfalls should patients avoid for gout?
1. Patients with gout can eat peanuts
Peanuts also contain a certain amount of purines, and patients with pre-gout or gout attacks are best not to eat peanuts, because uric acid will increase due to metabolic disorders, causing recurrent attacks of gout.
2. Patients with gout can smoke
Gout attacks are not directly related to smoking, so many people think that gout patients can smoke, which is actually a misunderstanding.
Gout is a metabolic disease, and smoking is closely related to many metabolic diseases, such as diabetes, high blood pressure, etc. Therefore, it is best not to smoke in patients with gout.
3, people who exercise regularly will not increase uric acid
Although people who exercise regularly will be relatively healthy, it does not mean that uric acid does not increase.
In strenuous or high-intensity exercise, the body's local oxygen supply will be affected, resulting in glycolysis in the body, producing a large amount of lactic acid.
Both lactic acid and uric acid are acidic substances, and they must be excreted through the urine. In the process of competing with each other, they affect the excretion of uric acid, increasing uric acid.
4. Gout has nothing to do with staying up late
Staying up late is very harmful to the human body and may also cause gout. Staying up late will make people sleep insufficient, resulting in low immunity in the human body.
In addition, staying up late often increases the burden on the kidneys and affects the metabolic function of the kidneys. Over time, gout attacks can occur due to elevated uric acid, and it is recommended to fall asleep before 11 p.m. every night.
5, thin people will not get gout
Because most people with gout are overweight or obese, many people think that slim people will not get gout, which is actually a misconception.
If a slender person has a genetic defect, uric acid cannot be excreted from the body due to poor purine metabolism, which may also cause gout.
If a slender person has high blood pressure, it is possible to take some kind of antihypertensive drug for a long time, which will increase uric acid and cause gout attacks.
6. Gout can not eat fruit
Eating sweets will increase uric acid and induce gout attacks, so many gout patients think that they cannot eat fruit.
In fact, some fruits are good for gout patients, such as fruits rich in potassium and dietary fiber, such as plums, grapes, cherries, pineapples, peaches, etc.
7, afraid of the side effects of drugs, can only be controlled through diet
Many gout patients feel that drugs have side effects, so they are very resistant to drug treatment, and only use the "dietary conditioning" method to reduce uric acid.
Although dietary control is the key to treating gout, dietary conditioning alone is difficult to reduce uric acid to ideal levels, and medication is still needed. And as long as the medication is done properly, the side effects are still very small, and the patient does not need to worry too much.
In addition to the above, it should also be noted that some gout patients think that uric acid drops as quickly as possible, but this understanding is not correct.
To gradually reduce uric acid, do not fall too fast. If you take uric acid lowering drugs in large doses in order to quickly reduce uric acid, it will cause the uric acid in the joints to form a stepwise difference between the uric acid in the blood, so that the uric acid crystallizes, falls off, and eventually aggravates the disease.
It is also an incorrect belief that gout requires lifelong medication. If uric acid can be controlled within the normal range through diet, then long-term medication maintenance is not required.