Generally speaking most patients with rheumatism can consume turtle, but gout as a disease in rheumatism, gout patients can not consume turtle. Rheumatism is a class of chronic diseases, often manifested as soreness and pain in the muscles and joints, and can involve a number of systems such as cardiovascular, neurological, and urological. Its etiology is not yet completely clear, may be related to immunity, infection, genetics and other factors. Common rheumatic diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, osteoarthritis, gout and so on. Generally speaking most patients with rheumatic diseases can consume turtle. Gout as a rheumatic disease in a disease, its pathophysiological mechanism for purine metabolism and uric acid excretion disorders, so it is not advisable to ingest a large number of purine, purine content in the turtle is 110mg per 100g, belongs to the purine food, so gout patients are not recommended to eat turtle. Rheumatic patients can go to the regular hospital rheumatology and immunology department and other related departments for detailed consultation.