The 86-year-old mother-in-law has been replenishing the body of the turtle for a month to make up for gout and kidney failure

Wuhan Evening News, January 4 (reporter Wang Kaining correspondent Meng Jia Zhao Lin) elderly mother-in-law for a month to eat turtles to supplement the body, yesterday suddenly the right foot swollen and painful can not walk, medical treatment to know that it is to make up for gout, but also kidney failure.

Chen's 86-year-old mother-in-law, who lives in Hanyang, has a history of hypertension for many years, but drug control has always been very good. Since the beginning of winter, Grandma Chen wants to use turtles to supplement her body, and every day the turtles simmer soup. As a result, yesterday, the back of her right foot was so swollen that she couldn't even wear shoes, so her family sent her to Hanyang Hospital for treatment.

Professor Hu Wanhong, director of the Department of Endocrinology, said that Grandma Chen was so painful that the first metatarsal part of her right foot was so painful that she could not touch it, and the local skin temperature increased, and she could not walk at all. After blood tests, it was found that Chen's mother-in-law urea nitrogen, creatinine and uric acid were all excessive, and there was an acute attack of chronic renal failure with gout, and the foot swelling was a manifestation of gout.

"Grandma Chen is old, her kidney function is not good, and the appearance of gout is caused by too strong supplementation." Professor Hu Wanhong said that gout is caused by a substance metabolism disorder called purine. The human body will produce purine, will also take up purine from food, purine metabolism will produce uric acid, under normal circumstances uric acid is excreted from the urine by the kidneys, if there is too much purine, uric acid will cause urinary tract obstruction, continuous accumulation in the body, reaching a certain concentration will have crystallization precipitation, gout, threatening kidney function.

How to prevent gout? Professor Hu Wanhong, director of the Department of Nephrology of Hanyang Hospital, supported that managing his mouth is the key. The following three types of foods contain purines from high to low: animal liver, waist, heart, brain, pancreas; game, goose, certain fish (sardines, bluefish, salmon), scallops, etc.; pork, beef, mutton, aquatic products, etc. are best eaten with caution. You should ensure 2,000 ml of water intake every day, eat more fruits and vegetables, control your weight, and maintain proper exercise. She especially reminded that at the end of the year, there are many social gatherings, young people eat and drink all kinds of sea, drinking alcohol will also induce gout, although alcohol does not contain purines, but the ethanol in the wine will delay the excretion of uric acid, which will also lead to uric acid accumulation.

【Edited by Ye Feng】