Middle-aged and elderly men are at high risk of gout, so we must do a good job of prevention and raise awareness in peacetime. Here are six tips about gout.
1. Prohibit excessive drinking:
Alcohol itself can provide purine raw materials, such as beer, which contains a large number of purine components. Therefore, we should pay attention to avoid drinking a lot of alcohol, and avoid excessive drinking. In particular, beer and seafood can not be eaten together, if eaten together for a long time, it often causes the reduction of purine excretion and gout.
2. Weight control:
The blood uric acid level of obese people is usually higher than that of normal people. If gout is accompanied by obesity, it can also affect the drug effect and reduce drug sensitivity. Therefore, obese people should lose weight reasonably. Body control is mainly to control diet and strengthen exercise.
3. Eat less purine:
Eat less animal viscera, fish and foods with high purine content, such as pig, beef, mutton, ham, sausage, chicken, duck, goose, rabbit, fish and shrimp, spinach, beans, mushrooms, etc. Peanuts should also be eaten less. Don’t drink too much, especially beer. Drink plenty of water, eat plenty of leavened foods, porridge with alkali (which can promote the excretion of uric acid) and all root vegetables. Fruits are basically edible.
4. Prevent overwork:
Cold and overwork can cause the disorder of autonomic nervous regulation, which can easily lead to vasoconstriction of body surface and viscera, thus reducing the excretion of uric acid. Therefore, gout patients should wear warm clothes in cold season to avoid cold, overwork and mental tension.
5. Prevent strenuous exercise:
Lactic acid produced by strenuous exercise can inhibit the excretion of uric acid by renal tubules and increase uric acid in blood, and decrease blood volume due to increased sweating, which leads to gout. Vigorous exercise can also cause excessive sweating, body water loss and reduce blood volume, renal blood flow and affect uric acid excretion, causing transient hyperuricemia. Therefore, gout patients should not exercise vigorously.
6. Rational drug use:
Patients who take aspirin, diuretics, penicillin and anti-tuberculosis drugs for a long time should regularly test their blood uric acid. These drugs can inhibit the excretion of uric acid by renal tubules, which can lead to the formation of gout if it remains high for a long time.