Elevated blood uric acid is mainly caused by abnormal purine metabolism or reduced excretion of uric acid, commonly used treatments include dietary management and drug therapy.
1. Dietary management: patients with blood uric acid higher than normal level should pay attention to dietary avoidance of seafood, animal offal, broth and other high purine content of food, avoid alcohol, reduce the intake of fructose-rich foods, eat less beef, lamb, fish and other purine foods, and should also try to drink more water in order to promote the excretion of uric acid.
2. Drug therapy: patients with blood uric acid higher than normal levels can take benzbromarone, febuxostat, allopurinol and other uric acid-lowering drugs to reduce uric acid if necessary, there are patients with hypertension, hyperlipidemia and diabetes and other underlying diseases should also be actively targeted at the underlying diseases for treatment.
Drugs need to be used under the guidance of a physician, it is recommended that patients with elevated blood uric acid go to the endocrinology department of a regular hospital, rheumatology and immunology department, under the guidance of a doctor to standardize the diagnosis and treatment.