Nowadays, "High uric acid can cause gout? "Drinking beer and eating seafood can also cause gout?" Such topics have repeatedly attracted everyone's attention. Today, Liling Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine will introduce some misunderstandings about gout to you, so that everyone can better understand gout and thus correctly understand gout!
Myth 1: As long as the joint is not painful, no matter how high the blood uric acid level is, you don't need to care about it.
If the uric acid level is not controlled in time, the incidence of gout attacks will increase and induce the occurrence and development of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.
Misunderstanding 2: Blood uric acid drops to normal, only control diet, do not continue to take uric acid-lowering drugs, is it okay?
Diet control can only reduce the amount of exogenous uric acid, no effect on the production of endogenous uric acid, after stopping the drug, most patients blood uric acid will rise, blood uric acid after falling to normal, to use the drug under the guidance of a doctor.
Myth 3: Once you have gout, you will not have a chance with wine for life.
In the period of gout remission, it is not strictly taboo, but appropriate diet control, it is impossible to sacrifice the body's nutritional needs, regular hospital follow-up.
Myth 4: During the treatment, gout attacks are becoming more and more frequent.
The sudden drop in blood uric acid level causes urate crystals to fall off in the synovial membrane or soft tissues of the joint, quickly induces a local inflammatory response, and causes an acute gout attack, called "metastatic gout", in fact, the removal of urate crystals is conducive to the recovery of joints.
Myth 5: High uric acid will definitely cause gout, and if uric acid is not high, it is not gout.
There will be no gout without high uric acid, but high uric acid may not necessarily occur gout; An acute attack of gout can be more normal than usual or even normal.
Myth 6: For acute gout, a few bottles of anti-inflammatory drugs are enough.
Gout is a sterile inflammation, the use of antibiotics to treat inflammation that is not caused by bacteria, not only not symptomatic, but also abuse of antibiotics, gout attacks called anti-inflammatory drugs, is actually non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, such as: celecoxib, etoricoxib and so on.
Myth 7: The drug toxic side effects of gout are large, can I not eat it? For example, colchicine.
The side effects of drugs are much smaller than the damage of gout to the body, and regular review under the guidance of doctors can be avoided; I feel that colchicine has large side effects, which may be too large doses, and small doses of colchicine have similar therapeutic effects compared with large doses, but large side effects occur.
Myth 8: Uric acid is so harmful, so the lower I get, the better?
Uric acid stimulates the cerebral cortex, enhances intelligence, and is also an antioxidant. Therefore, uric acid is not a flood beast, nor is it the lower the better. Recommendation: Blood uric acid should not be less than 180 micromol/L during urate-lowering therapy.
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Hunan Medical Chat Special Author: Liling City Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine Classic Department Li Huan