What are the dangers of high uric acid to the body

Having high uric acid may lead to hyperuricemia, which can lead to gout attacks. Dangers to the body include causing gout stone formation, causing joint damage and kidney damage. Uric acid is a metabolite of purines, and the level of uric acid in the body is proportional to the purine content of food. If you often eat high purine food, coupled with the body of purine metabolism abnormalities and impeded discharge, easy to make the body of uric acid is too high, resulting in hyperuricemia. High uric acid is an important cause of gout attacks. Continuous high concentration of uric acid is also easy to cause the formation of gout stones, gout stone deposits as a foreign body will cause joint damage and kidney and other organs damage and dysfunction. In addition to this hyperuricemia is also prone to cause hypertension, diabetes, metabolic syndrome and other diseases. In normal life, we should pay attention to reasonable diet to control the intake of purine, avoid animal offal, barbecue, seafood, thick meat soup and other high purine food. At the same time, pay attention to protect the kidney function, reduce the damage caused by high purine. If the patient is in discomfort should be timely hospital consultation, under the guidance of the doctor symptomatic treatment.