Precautions before blood uric acid testing

Before the blood uric acid test, you should pay attention to avoiding high purine diet 3 days before the test, fasting on the day of the test and so on.
1. Avoid high purine diet 3 days before the test. Uric acid is mainly produced by food purines, purine compounds and cell metabolism of nucleic acids in the enzyme decomposition, uric acid metabolism disorders can lead to hyperuricemia, blood uric acid test is susceptible to interference with exogenous uric acid, so the test of blood uric acid should be avoided 3 days or so before the purine food, such as seafood, animal offal, beer and so on.
2. Fasting on the day of the test. Patients should ban water and food after 10:00 a.m. the day before the blood uric acid test, and then take blood from the vein on an empty stomach in the early morning of the next day for the test.
If you need to do blood uric acid test, you can go to the endocrinology department, rheumatology and immunology department of regular hospitals and other related departments for detailed consultation.