A person can go a day without eating, but not a day without drinking water. The human body needs to drink a lot of water every day in order to ensure sufficient urine volume so that uric acid can be excreted smoothly from the body. The key point for people with hyperuricemia is the increase of uric acid in the blood, and this causes gouty arthritis and uric acid kidney stones. So one of the main points of gout prevention is that you must drink more water to keep the daily urine volume above 2,000 ml in order to facilitate the discharge of uric acid from the urine. How to drink water scientifically and reasonably: 1, to develop the good habit of drinking water often, drink a certain amount of water every day to maintain a certain amount of urine, avoid the bad habit of remembering to drink water only when you are thirsty. 2, do not drink a lot of water before or half an hour after a meal. The best time to drink water is between meals and in the evening and early morning. 3, can not wait for thirst to remember to drink water, should develop a good habit of actively drinking water. Because thirst means that the body is already in a state of dehydration, when the urine is also in a concentrated state, is not conducive to the excretion of uric acid. 4, many people like to drink tea, with tea instead of drinking plain water. Tea contains more tannic acid, easy to combine with the iron ions in food, the formation of insoluble precipitates, affecting the absorption of iron. So it is best to drink tea 1 hour after the meal, and light tea is appropriate. In short, in order to better prevent gout, be sure to drink water also on the agenda of gout patients.