When it comes to “gout”, many friends will immediately float in the mind a bunch of specious “impression”: gout is high uric acid, as long as the uric acid is not high will not have gout; gout is pain is obvious, and so the pain is good will be over; gout as long as you control your mouth not to drink and eat seafood on the line; gout patients can not eat soy products; gout medicine and diabetes drugs to eat for life. Drinking and eating seafood on the line; gout patients can not eat soy products; gout medicine and diabetes medicine to eat for life …… the truth is really like what we think? 1, high uric acid and gout It is true that gout is a serious state of disorder of uric acid metabolism in the human body, the higher the uric acid in the human body the more likely to suffer from gout, but not every patient with hyperuricemia will get gout, according to statistics in patients with hyperuricemia only about 10% will finally have a gout attack. The concentration of uric acid in human blood is not stable and can be affected by many factors, such as the amount of water consumed, the temperature, and whether other diseases are combined, so it is difficult to rule out hyperuricemia with a normal blood uric acid test result, but it is possible to diagnose hyperuricemia with an increased blood uric acid test result. It is worth noting that the increase of uric acid concentration in human body actually reflects the increase of oxidative stress in human body, so we should not focus on controlling and reducing uric acid for hyperuricemia, but should consider whether there are factors that lead to excessive oxidative stress in human body, such as obesity, unhealthy diet, insufficient exercise, etc. 2, gout treatment is not just pain relief Gout attack is indeed very obvious pain, this time should be the first priority of pain relief treatment, but as mentioned above, a major condition that causes gout is the increase of uric acid in the body, so once the pain is relieved, then you should immediately start to reduce uric acid treatment in the body, including drugs, diet, exercise, etc.. This can effectively control the blood uric acid level in the long term and reduce or even eliminate the re-emergence of gout. 3, the diet of gout patients is not only to manage wine and seafood Gout is the result of a long-term increase in uric acid in the body, and the source of uric acid in the body is the purine substances in food, so which foods have a high purine content? For example, animal offal, fish roe, shellfish, etc. Therefore, you should try to avoid these foods during a gout attack, and you should strictly control the consumption of these foods even during the remission period of a gout attack. The purines contained in bean plants are indeed a high content of plant foods, but there is evidence that the consumption of bean plants does not cause gout attacks, so the emphasis on not eating soy products for gout patients is completely wrong. On the one hand, alcohol needs to be excreted from the kidneys, which will crowd the pathway of uric acid excretion, reducing the clearance of blood uric acid and increasing the concentration of uric acid in the blood; on the other hand, the oxidative metabolism of alcohol in the liver will affect the conversion of food purines into uric acid in the liver, increasing uric acid production, so it is an iron rule that gout patients must abstain from alcohol. It is also found that in addition to alcohol, sucrose, fructose and other sugar substances also increase the concentration of uric acid in human blood, and the probability of hyperuricemia and gout will multiply for people who drink more than 1000mL of sugary soft drinks every day. Therefore, for patients with hyperuricemia or gout, in addition to not drinking alcohol, sugary soft drinks should also be avoided. 4. Do I need to take gout medication for the rest of my life? Gout and diabetes are not exactly the same. Gout patients can be cured of gout clinically if they adhere to a healthy lifestyle after the uric acid concentration in the body is reduced through diet and medication and, most importantly, after the uric acid crystals that were originally deposited in the body are dissolved. However, the process of dissolving uric acid crystals in the body is quite slow, taking about 1 to 3 years, and it is also a lifelong process to develop and maintain good healthy lifestyle habits, so the treatment of gout cannot be achieved overnight, but needs to be done gradually and adhere to a relatively long period of stable medication treatment, so as to obtain the most satisfactory treatment results. Warm tip: Cold can lead to accelerated crystallization of uric acid in the body, so keeping warm and promoting blood circulation (exercise) can help reduce gout attacks!