Uric acid is the end product of purine metabolism and is mainly produced by the enzymatic breakdown of nucleic acids and other purine compounds from cellular metabolism and purines from food. Can I drink tea if I have high uric acid? What kind of tea to drink? First of all, it depends on whether drinking tea has any effect on uric acid concentration. There are two main causes of high serum uric acid: increased uric acid production and decreased uric acid excretion, and sometimes both of them coexist. The first increase in uric acid production: mainly includes high purine diet intake and endogenous purine metabolism to produce two aspects. Food-induced uric acid production is proportional to the purine content of food, and purine-rich foods include mainly animal liver, kidney, anchovies, etc. The increase of endogenous purine metabolism in the body is mainly related to the synthesis and decomposition of purine and other factors. Secondly, uric acid excretion is reduced: about 2/3 of uric acid is excreted through the kidneys, and the remaining 1/3 is excreted through extrarenal pathways such as the intestinal tract and biliary tract. About 90% of patients with persistent hyperuricemia have a defect in renal processing of uric acid and show reduced uric acid excretion, including reduced glomerular filtration rate, increased tubular reabsorption, reduced tubular secretion and urate crystallization. There is no evidence to prove that drinking tea will lead to an increase in uric acid, generally tea does not contain high purines and does not affect uric acid excretion, and drinking tea will drink a lot of water, which can dilute the concentration of blood uric acid and increase the excretion of uric acid. However, patients are not recommended to drink too strong tea. Therefore, drinking ordinary tea will not lead to an increase in the concentration of uric acid, if you can therefore drink more water is beneficial to the excretion of uric acid, so it is possible to drink tea. However, if the tea is rich in purines, it is not recommended for patients to drink it.