Drinking beer may cause gout, but there are many other causes of gout, such as medication and kidney disease.
Beer contains a large number of purine components, alcohol is also prone to inhibit renal tubular secretion of uric acid, reduce uric acid excretion, prompting abnormal blood uric acid levels, so for long-term, large number of people who drink beer, there may be a risk of gout. If you consume other high purine foods such as sardines and oysters while drinking beer, you are more likely to suffer from gout and should pay attention to it.
The cause of gout is still unclear, although diet as a cause, but the application of furosemide, aspirin and other drugs, suffering from chronic nephritis, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, hypothyroidism and other diseases, can also induce gout disease. For a small number of joint trauma, strenuous exercise and other patients, may induce acute attacks of gout.
It is recommended to pay attention to the rationality of daily diet, to ensure a balanced intake of nutrients, to avoid large amounts of intake of animal offal, seafood and other high-purine food. Pay attention to actively quit smoking and drinking to reduce the irritation and damage to the bone and joint parts.