Hyperuricemia is a persistent elevation of blood uric acid level (>416µmol/L), which is caused by abnormal purine metabolism and impaired uric acid excretion. With the improvement of living standard, the incidence of hyperuricemia is increasing year by year and tends to be younger. Excessive uric acid can be deposited in joints, causing gouty arthritis; it can also be deposited in blood vessel walls, causing damage to the endothelium and inducing hypertension and cardiovascular diseases; in the process of uric acid excretion, it can be deposited in the kidneys, causing kidney damage and forming gouty kidneys. People with hyperuricemia should go to the hospital in time and should pay attention to the regulation of life.
As the saying goes, three points of treatment, seven points of nourishment. So, what should patients with hyperuricemia pay attention to in their daily lives?
1.Rational diet, reduce the intake of high purine food
Foods with high purine content mainly include seafood and animal offal. The content of cereals and fruits is less. According to the amount of purine content, food can be divided into four categories.
The first category of food (purine content 150~1000mg/100g)
Animal offal: liver, kidney, brain, intestine
Seafood: anchovies, sardines, oysters, silver carp, white pomfret, white scallops, sharks
All kinds of meat soup: soup is mostly delicious from the breakdown products of protein and nitrogenous nucleic acids, collectively known as nitrogenous leachates, which are particularly high in purines, too much purine can not be excreted, uric acid will be deposited in the blood, leading to hyperuricemia.
Chicken essence, yeast powder
Vegetables: bean sprouts, soybean sprouts, asparagus, purple cabbage, shiitake mushrooms
Legumes: soybeans
Second food group (purine content 75 to 150mg/100g)
Fish: carp, cod, sea bass, halibut, small shrimp, tamari, eel, eel
Meat: goose, pigeon, duck, pheasant; rabbit, pork
Nuts: peanuts, cashew nuts, lotus seeds, almonds
Food group III (purine content <75mg/100g)
Fish: mackerel, herring, salmon, white fish, lobster, crab, oyster
Meat: chicken, ham, lamb, beef
Cereals: wheat bran, bread, cereal
Vegetables: asparagus, cauliflower, spinach, mushrooms, string beans, green beans, peas, kidney beans
Beans: green beans, red beans, tofu, soy milk, dried tofu
Fourth food group (purine content <25mg/100g)
Milk and its products
Eggs
Most cereals, vegetables
Most green vegetables have low purine content. You can eat more onions, winter melon and potatoes, which have low purine content, with purine content below 4mg per 100g of food.
Various fruits and dried fruits
Acute period: forbid to eat the first and second type of food, eat less of the third type of food, and freely choose the fourth type of food
Chronic remission period: ban the first type of food, eat less of the second type of food, and freely choose the third and fourth type of food
Some people like to eat hot pot, in fact, hot pot within the seafood, animal offal, mushrooms, hot soup, a full range of purine content, is an important factor leading to hyperuricemia and induce gout.
2, drink more water Drinking water should be > 2000 ml daily.
3.Appropriate activity Appropriate exercise is desirable to keep a balance between food intake and physical activity and maintain appropriate weight. Obese people should lose weight, and hyperlipidemia should limit fat intake.
4. Quit smoking and alcohol
Gout patients should abstain from alcohol. The yeast purine content in beer is high, and ethanol in beer can increase lactic acid in the body, inhibit uric acid excretion, and promote purine decomposition to increase uric acid, triggering gout attacks, so gout (or hyperuricemia) patients should not only not drink beer, and other alcoholic beverages should not be drunk.
Smoking will help blood lipids to adhere to the walls of blood vessels, and high uric acid itself has a damaging effect on the endothelium of blood vessels, so you should resolutely quit smoking.