Festive Dining Out Strategy for Gout/High Uric Acid Population

After being busy for a long time, I finally look forward to a long vacation. Whether it’s family reunion or catching up with old friends, it’s inevitable to have a sumptuous meal together, which is a difficult problem for gout patients: Considering factors such as calorie restriction, balanced nutrition and elimination of drinking, the most ideal diet for gout patients is to choose their own ingredients and cook their own diet. However, it is inevitable to go out to eat or visit relatives and friends during the Spring Festival. Compared with their own diet at ordinary times, they have more oil and calories. Salt is abundant and tastes strong. The ingredients are miscellaneous and the purine content is uncertain. How Read More …

Six Mistakes in Gout Diet

1. It’s OK to drink a little wine. A: It is best not to drink alcohol. Alcohol is one of the important factors inducing gout. After alcohol enters the human body, It’s metabolized in liver tissue, Lactic acid is produced. The mechanism of human body excreting lactic acid and uric acid is similar. The increase in lactic acid will affect the excretion of uric acid in the kidney. Causes the blood uric acid level to increase, The uric acid in the blood enters the tissue to form crystals, Aggravating symptoms. Among all kinds of alcohol, beer and white wine are currently found to have the strongest inducing effect. Besides alcohol, they also contain higher concentrations of purine or many substances Read More …

For arthralgia of unknown cause, be careful that gout is at work.

Joint pain caused by gout often makes people miserable, but many people do not know that they have gout when the first joint pain attack occurs, and often take a few painkillers at will to get rid of it hastily. After the pain passed, they continued to eat and drink smartly. After that, gout recurred or caused more serious health problems, and they suddenly realized that they might need to see a doctor. There are also some people who attach great importance to their health and go to the hospital to see a doctor immediately after finding joint pain. They want to take all measures to prevent gout from recurring, but it often backfires.

Is gout hereditary?

Hyperuricemia and gout, as common diseases, have a very high prevalence rate, which I believe is no stranger to everyone. As a metabolic disease, it is often accompanied by hypertension, coronary heart disease, diabetes and other diseases, causing harm to health. Due to economic development and lifestyle changes, the incidence of gout in China has been on the rise year by year. In the past, it was considered to be more common in male and elderly patients, and gradually began to appear in some young patients. If the elders suffer from gout, they cannot help worrying about themselves: will gout be inherited? Will I have gout in the future? Is gout hereditary? It is really hard to say, because the Read More …

Asparagus, bean sprouts, cauliflower, these high purine vegetables, gout can eat?

Gout patients all know that eating too much food with high purine content will lead to an increase in uric acid and even induce gout, so avoid eating it. However, there are so many delicious foods in the world that there will always be some uncertain foods. At this time, some friends will check on the Internet, but the results are often as follows: Asparagus has extremely high purine content and cannot be eaten, cauliflower has high purine content and cannot be eaten, bean sprouts have high purine content and cannot be eaten, spinach cannot be eaten… It seems that you can’t even eat many vegetables with gout. Is this really the case? Purine content is not the only judgment Read More …

Can gout eat meat?

As we all know, you should eat less meat when you get gout, and the gout attack after each big fish and big meat is well known to all. At the same time, doctors and patients warned that the title of rich and noble disease has virtually deepened the awareness of [eating less meat when gout occurs]. However, when some patients control their diet, [eating less meat] often becomes [not eating meat], because they are afraid of pain. However, can gout really not eat meat? Don’t you have gout without eating meat? What problems should we pay attention to if we can eat? Can gout eat meat? First of all, gout can eat meat, but the type of meat, consumption Read More …

Dairy products, vegetables and fruits are especially good for gout.

Gout patients often ask [what is good for gout], and patients often say [I ate XX and felt the effect was very good]. Is what food good for gout? Dr. Clove recommended several foods for his patients. However, before recommending, I hope everyone can understand the following three things: At present, gout cannot be cured completely. The key to gout treatment is to maintain the blood uric acid at a low level for a long time, less than 360 for those without gout stones and less than 300 for those with gout stones. This can reduce gout recurrence or even no attack, and at the same time can reduce the possibility of gout stones, kidney damage, etc. Diet control is Read More …

Parasites, heavy metals… hairy crabs, how should they be eaten safely?

Autumn is the harvest season, with a bumper harvest of all kinds of grain and fruits, and the weather is beginning to cool down gradually. This season is also the season to eat goods. Of course, hairy crabs cannot be missed, but many friends always have worries and worries before eating. Today, Dr. Clove will explain to you some questions about hairy crabs. Question 1: Crab roe and crab cream are high in fat and cholesterol and cannot be eaten? There is indeed a lot of cholesterol in crab roe. The cholesterol content in every 100g crab roe may reach more than 400 milligrams, and the crab cream is similar. Because of this, crab roe and crab cream have unique Read More …

Can gout eat coarse grains?

When gout patients choose food, [purine content in food] is an important judgment index. Because the [root] of gout is hyperuricemia, purine in food will be metabolized into uric acid in the body, affecting the level of uric acid in blood. However, the purine content in the skins of various grains is relatively high, so it was previously believed that friends with gout or high uric acid should eat more flour and rice with lower purine content such as refined white rice and refined white flour. However, we should eat less coarse grains with high purine content such as oats, taro, corn and millet. However, with the deepening of the research, this view began to fail. The purine content of Read More …

How should I eat vegetables to reduce uric acid and gout?

Everyone knows that [high uric acid and gout should be avoided], but few people say [eat more what]. Vegetables are just one of the few foods worth recommending to eat more. Dr. Clove invited Director Zhang Fengchun of Peking Union Medical College Hospital to explain in detail: What is good about vegetables for gout? How eats better? Four Benefits of Vegetables to Gout 1. Vegetables have low purine content Most vegetables contain only a small amount of purine and have little effect on uric acid and gout. As for the medium purine vegetables such as asparagus, bean sprouts, cauliflower and beans that people are worried about, the previous view was that they should eat less. However, more and more studies Read More …