Tag: Gout

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Uric acid is high, can you eat beans?

Many friends turn pale at the mention of beans when they find out that uric acid is high. They often have the inherent idea that beans are high in purine and must not be eaten. However, studies have shown that eating soybeans and other pod beans will not lead to gout attacks, and plant purines have a lower risk of gout than meat purines. The so-called low risk does not mean that there is no risk. Beans are not inedible. The key lies in: For people with high uric acid, how much and how to eat different beans are important. Soybean and Soybean Products When we talk about [soybean], we are not only talking about soybean (also called soybean), but Read More …

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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 …

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Gout attacks can also use this kind of painkillers-non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs

Speaking of [non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs], many people may be confused. Have you ever heard of [fortalin] [ibuprofen] [diclofenac]? Friends of patients with recurrent gout will not be unfamiliar with these drugs. During acute attacks, doctors will prescribe [diclofenac] [ibuprofen] and other drugs. Sometimes patients will ask for a painkiller because they think other drugs are not effective. Gout analgesics are divided into three categories. We have already introduced colchicine in previous articles. You can click on the link below to review it again: > > Colchicine has such a big side effect, can you still eat it? Today, let’s talk about the role of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs in gout treatment. How do NSAIDs work? Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS) mainly inhibit Read More …

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Ten Points for Attention in Medication for Gout Patients

1. It is necessary to relieve pain and reduce uric acid. After taking painkillers in time for gout attacks, the symptoms will mostly be relieved. Even without medication, the symptoms of pain can be relieved within two weeks. As a result, some people hold the mentality of enduring pain. However, joint pain is not the main harm of gout. Persistent high uric acid in remission period is also constantly endangering health, aggravating joint damage and endangering kidney at the same time. In addition, the general time for taking painkillers in the acute phase is about one week. If the pain still does not improve significantly after one week of medication, you should see a doctor in time. 2. Antibiotics cannot Read More …

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Gout? Be careful that diabetes will also come [make trouble]

Gout and diabetes are both metabolic syndromes, which often accompany and affect each other. Their occurrence is related to the disorder of sugar and lipid metabolism in the body, and is also the main culprit that further leads to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Statistics show that the probability of diabetes in gout patients is 2 ~ 3 times higher than that in normal people. Some people predict that gout will become the second largest metabolic disease after diabetes in China in the next 10 years, while type 2 diabetes will remain the number one culprit of metabolic diseases. It is precisely because type 2 diabetes and gout have many similarities in the process of occurrence and development that when gout Read More …

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Some Suggestions for Family Members of Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis

We often tell patients that rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic disease that will follow the patient for a lifetime. This may sound a bit frustrating, but this is the reality we have to face. Doctors are not the only ones who face diseases with patients. Family members and friends of rheumatoid arthritis patients will get along longer and closer with patients than doctors. It is no less important to get support and help from them than doctors’ professional treatment. Dr. Clove has prepared several small suggestions for patients with rheumatoid arthritis, hoping to be helpful to patients and their families: Should do this 1. Understanding First of all, we must have the will to enter the world of rheumatoid arthritis Read More …

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Uric acid increased? Beware of gout

The development of gout can be roughly divided into four stages clinically. From asymptomatic uric acid increase to gout attack, to severe joint damage and kidney function damage. At present, there are still many gout patients who do not pay enough attention to gout, believing that gout only causes unbearable joint pain when it breaks out, and there is no what harm when it does not break out. This idea is totally wrong. Let’s understand the development process of gout step by step, and we can also preliminarily judge which period we belong to. The first stage: hyperuricemia stage In this period, the population did not show clinical symptoms of gout except for the increase of blood uric acid. Many Read More …

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If you want to reduce uric acid, please drink more water first.

Kidney is the organ that excretes urine, and uric acid is dissolved in urine. The more urine the patient excretes, the more uric acid will be excreted from the body. If you want to urinate more, what should you do? The answer is to drink more water. Ensure adequate urine volume Gout patients should pay special attention to the intake of sufficient water. If your water intake is insufficient, the urine volume will decrease and the concentration of dissolved uric acid in urine will increase, which is easy to form urinary calculi in the urinary tract. As long as your renal function and cardiac function level are normal, after you absorb enough water, the urine volume will also increase, the Read More …

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In addition to painkillers, these drugs are especially good for gout.

Joint pain caused by gout often makes people miserable. However, many people do not go to the hospital for further examination and treatment in time after suffering from pain [after recovering the scar and forgetting the pain]. Many people think that there are only analgesic drugs for gout treatment, but besides analgesic, the more important treatment for gout is uric acid reduction in remission period. Many gout drugs have been introduced before. Today, let’s review them in general. Gout treatment drugs include both painkillers for acute attacks and uric acid lowering drugs for remission. Drugs to control acute attacks 1. Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs are widely used in clinical practice and have good effects, but they cannot be Read More …

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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 …