Gout is a relatively common orthopedic disease in our lives. It is known as an undead cancer because of its recurring and unbearable pain that afflicts patients for a long time. In the face of gout, patients should follow medical advice and develop good lifestyle habits at the same time.
What kind of disease is gout?
Gout attacks are also known as gouty arthritis. It is caused by the accumulation and deposition of uric acid crystals in the joints. It is characterized by sudden onset, redness, swelling and severe pain. Most attacks occur in the joints of the big toe, and the pain is usually in one area at a time. The pain is usually in one area at a time, and usually becomes milder after 1-2 weeks. However, high blood uric acid can recur if not treated!
Gout-prone areas: at the joints of the big toe, neck of the foot, back of the foot, knees, neck of the hand, elbow joints, etc.
People who are prone to gout: 95% are men; the majority of people who are in great shape whether they work or play get it. Specifically: those who like strenuous sports, workaholics, those who like to drink and especially like beer, obese people, etc.
What are the causes of gout attacks?
When the uric acid level is higher than 416 for a long time, the uric acid that is dissolved in the blood starts to crystallize and collects and precipitates in the joints. The uric acid crystals that had been deposited in the joints are dislodged due to factors such as nervousness, intense exercise, or sudden instability in the uric acid level. The white blood cells want to get rid of it, so the white blood cells start a fierce battle with uric acid. So gout strikes!
How gout patients should improve their lifestyle habits
1, control the amount of diet to reduce the weight
Most of the obese people will drop their uric acid value after their weight is reduced. However, although the uric acid value is high, there is absolutely nothing that cannot be eaten. All kinds of food are a little less to eat the food calorie control.
The focus of diet is the following 3 points.
(1) Weight control
Standard weight.
Male: Height cm-105
Female: Height cm-100
Example: male height 170cm, standard weight 170-105=65kg.
(2) Prohibit the intake of “three high” food
Patients with high uric acid and gout should prohibit the intake of “three high” foods – high fat, high protein, high sugar. Fat will prevent the kidneys from excreting uric acid; protein food will increase the synthesis of meat-derived purine and increase blood uric acid; sugar such as sucrose will break down fructose and increase blood uric acid level.
(3) Eat less purine-rich foods and actively consume alkaline foods
Patients with high uric acid and gout should eat less purine-rich foods such as bean sprouts, various kinds of meat, animal offal, seafood (shellfish, fish) and mushrooms and algae.
Eat less acid-producing foods and more alkaline foods such as vegetables, fruits, grains and cereals, milk, eggs, etc. Acidic food will make the urine acidic is not conducive to the excretion of uric acid, while alkaline food can keep the urine alkaline, promote the dissolution of uric acid and increase the amount of uric acid excretion.
2.The amount of alcohol comes down
About drinking alcohol (it is highly recommended to drop alcohol!)
Patients with high uric acid and gout should be prohibited from drinking alcohol. Because ethanol in the body will be metabolized into lactic acid, easy to make the body lactic acid accumulation, the elimination of uric acid has an inhibitory effect, while ethanol will also promote adenine nucleotide conversion, accelerate the body adenosine triphosphate decomposition, the production of uric acid, inducing gout. Especially after starvation while drinking a lot of alcohol and eating a lot of high-protein, high-purine food, which often causes acute attacks of gouty arthritis. In addition, beer produces a lot of purines in fermentation and can cause obesity. Therefore, patients with risk factors should be prohibited from drinking all alcohol.
3. Drink enough water
Since uric acid is excreted from urine, it is easy to excrete uric acid from the body if the amount of urine increases. Except for patients with poor heart function and kidney function who cannot drink a lot of water, drink more than 2000ml of water every day to promote uric acid excretion and prevent the formation of uric acid stones.
(Note: drinks containing a lot of sugar, easy to cause obesity, cause gout attacks, should not drink too much!)
4, moderate aerobic exercise
In order to lose weight and prevent complications that are easily caused by high uric acid, moderate aerobic exercise is highly recommended! Because excessive strenuous exercise will lead to an increase in blood uric acid concentration, causing gouty arthritis attacks. For those who are overweight should choose an exercise program with a large proportion of aerobic metabolism. Fat is mainly involved in aerobic metabolism for energy, and only when low-intensity endurance activities are carried out fat consumption is more obvious. Walking, long-distance running, swimming, climbing, rope skipping and other sports are good choices, but the exercise time should be about 30 minutes to 60 minutes. In short, physical exercise is important to adhere to, remember that “an exposure to ten cold”.
5, avoid bad mood
Gout patients, acute people are more. This type of people, emotionally volatile, uric acid value is also prone to rise. In order to reduce uric acid, you should avoid excessive exertion and stress.
6.No smoking
Smoking is not only very destructive to the cardiovascular and respiratory system, but also seriously affects the treatment effect of nutritional and metabolic diseases and autoimmune diseases.