Gout patients can drink soda.
Soda water is an aqueous solution of sodium bicarbonate, the pH of soda water is about 7.5~9.0, which is weakly alkaline. Drinking large amounts of water for gout patients is conducive to promoting uric acid excretion, and drinking soda water can help patients regulate the pH value of urine to avoid the formation of urate stones, therefore, patients with normal cardiac and renal function can play a supplementary role in lowering uric acid by drinking large amounts of soda water.
In addition to drinking soda, gout patients should also actively manage their diet and improve their bad habits, while taking uric acid-lowering drugs to control uric acid levels according to their specific conditions, and should pay attention to regular testing of blood uric acid, urinary uric acid levels and liver and kidney function.
Gout patients can go to the regular hospital rheumatology and immunology department and other related departments for detailed consultation, follow the doctor’s instructions standardized treatment, do not self-medication.