Tag: Rheumatology Department

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Be more careful of gout attacks in summer! Remember nine points to reduce gout attacks.

Seeing summer approaching, experienced rheumatologists and immunologists all know that the number of gout patients in outpatient clinics will increase significantly. Because summer is a good time to drink beer, eat seafood and barbecue. I invited three to five friends to sit on the street late at night. My mouth was carefree, but my feet suffered the next day… In order to make gout friends comfortable in summer and reduce gout attacks, we must pay attention to the following nine points. STEP 1 Scientific Drinking Everyone knows that gout patients cannot drink beer, so what about white wine and red wine? Studies have shown that liquor and other spirits have the risk of increasing blood uric acid and causing gout Read More …

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Gout, high uric acid, want to eat hot pot? It doesn’t hurt like this!

Seeing the title, everyone will think that Dr. Clove is crazy, because everyone knows that [gout cannot eat hot pot] [eating hot pot can easily lead to gout attacks]. Yes, it is not recommended that gout patients eat hot pot, but if they can avoid it, they will not. However, there are always people who want to eat hot pot. Instead of just preventing everyone from eating, Dr. Clove wants to let everyone know why it is not recommended to eat. If you have to eat, should how eat? Three Crimes of Hot Pot, Gout to Know Although hot pot is delicious, it has [three crimes] that make hot pot keep gout away from thousands of miles. 1. The first Read More …

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How to deal with repeated attacks of gout? Know the reason and deal with it calmly.

I believe that every gout patient will experience recurrent gout attacks in the process of fighting against gout. However, patients who have been ill for a long time should have a deeper understanding of recurrent gout attacks: From the first few years, to a few times a year, a few months, to a few times a month, finally may have arthritis, pain for a long time. At the same time, some patients who have just started taking uric acid lowering drugs will also wonder: Why did gout attack more frequently after taking medicine? Why does gout recur? How can we avoid recurrent attacks of gout? The Root Cause of Recurrent Gout Gout patients often ask: Why is it normal for Read More …

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To reduce uric acid and gout, we must remember these five numbers!

In the treatment of hyperuricemia and gout, the treatment of lowering blood uric acid is very important. In the short term, the benefits of uric acid reduction may not be intuitive, and even at the initial stage of uric acid reduction, gout attacks may increase. But over time, the benefits of lowering uric acid will be shown: gout attacks will be less frequent and gout stones will be smaller than before… Some studies have found that the recurrence rate of gout is less than 10% when the blood uric acid is < 300 mol/L, while the recurrence rate of gout is 80% when the blood uric acid is > 540 mol/L, which is 8 times that of patients < 300 Read More …

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Inexplicable arthralgia, rheumatism, gout… or what?

June and July in the south of the Yangtze River are the rainy plum rains season, while some places are scorching sun. Barbecue, seafood and beer are just at that time. Although the regions are different, some friends are troubled by the same problem-inexplicable arthralgia. Some people say [this plum rains season is too humid, it is estimated to be rheumatism], while others say [your mouthful of beer and seafood may be gout]. So, unexplained arthralgia may be what? What should I do? Many diseases can cause arthralgia Arthralgia is just one word, but it has a lot of connotation: which joint, how long it has been painful, whether there is trauma, how old it is, and whether there are Read More …

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How to systematically treat gout?

Friends who believe in gout have had similar doubts: The medicine prescribed by the doctor has been taken, but it still hurts. I don’t want to take this medicine! The taboo is taboo, why gout also attack? Insist on drinking more water, exercising more and losing weight every day, but gout still occurs! In fact, uric acid-lowering drugs, taboos, drinking more water, exercising more and weight control are all very important to the treatment of gout, which can be said to be indispensable. This is like a barrel. No matter which board is missing, this barrel cannot hold much water. The following Dr. Clove will tell you why these points are important and how to systematically treat gout. To treat Read More …

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Four manifestations of gout deterioration, please see if you have them!

The deepest understanding of gout is [pain], but high uric acid and gout go far beyond arthralgia. It may also lead to joint function damage, kidney damage, aggravation of diabetes, increased myocardial infarction, stroke risk, etc. In order to reduce the occurrence of these serious hazards, gout patients must understand their own conditions and achieve early detection and intervention. When gout deteriorates, the following four signs often appear. You can compare your own situation to see if there are any of these manifestations. 1. Increased frequency or prolonged duration of attacks Some gout patients often attack once a few years after the first gout attack. Therefore, they also relaxed their vigilance, did not take any medicine, and did not avoid Read More …

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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 …

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Why can high uric acid and gout find me?

As the old saying goes: Know your enemy and know yourself, and you will be victorious in all battles. Gout treatment is also a war, a war between us and gout. However, do you really know about hyperuricemia and gout? I believe that some friends already have in-depth understanding, while others only [know a little], so the therapeutic effect is always not good. I hope that through this article, everyone can have a comprehensive understanding of high uric acid and gout, so as to avoid detours and suffer less. The root cause of gout pain is high uric acid Often there are patients asking [gout is not painful, is it not necessary to tube, do not need to take medicine? Read More …

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Gout patients speak out: My history of gout stone surgery, I hope you don’t come to this step!

Editor’s Note: Dr. Clove used to ask doctors to talk about popular science. Today we invited a patient with gout for 14 years to share his story with you. I hope you can get some enlightenment from it. In the treatment of gout, you should take fewer detours and suffer less. Hello, everyone! I am [Brother Floating], an old patient of gout for 14 years. To be exact, it should be 16 years, but it was only 14 years ago that the diagnosis was made. I have the honor to share my gout story with you here. I hope my tortuous gout road can give you some reminders and make you suffer less. The gout I discovered at the age Read More …