Gout patients may be complicated by uric acid kidney stones, and there is a certain connection between the two.
Gout is a uric acid excretion disorder, purine metabolism disorders caused by metabolic diseases, patients with higher than normal levels of uric acid in the blood, urate in the process of excretion through the kidneys will be aggregated to adhere to the formation of stones, uric acid renal stones in the early stage of the no obvious symptoms, with the progression of the disease can lead to patients with renal colic, blood uric acid, and urinary difficulties and other symptoms.
Gout patients in the use of uric acid excretion drugs to reduce uric acid treatment should drink a lot of water, while taking sodium bicarbonate, potassium citrate and other drugs to adjust the pH value of urine, to avoid the production of uric acid kidney stones, and promote uric acid discharge, the emergence of a large volume of uric acid kidney stones can also be extracorporeal lithotripsy treatment.
Drugs need to be used under the guidance of a physician, gout patients can go to the regular hospital rheumatology and immunology, nephrology and other related departments for detailed consultation.