How to deal with toe gout?
summary
Gout is mainly caused by the disorder of purine metabolism in the body, the obvious increase of uric acid synthesis, and the untimely discharge of uric acid. Gout can occur in any joint part of the body, especially in the foot joint of the lower extremity. Once it occurs, it often leads to unbearable pain. If it is not treated in time, it will occur more and more times, So how to deal with toe gout? Now let's talk about it.
How to deal with toe gout?
Patients with gout in the foot and thumb can often move their joints. When they are free, they can move each joint part and do stretching exercises, which can also help prevent uric acid crystals from accumulating in the joints, so as to help relieve the pain symptoms.
Patients with foot and thumb gout can use some traditional Chinese medicine for treatment, such as grinding cinnamon into powder, adding honey to stir evenly, and then taking it. After taking it, you can also massage the joint pain properly, which can significantly reduce the pain after more than half an hour. You can also use the method of soaking medicine water for treatment. For external application, you can soak some gauze into ginger juice or Chinese medicine wine, and then apply hot compress to the pain area, generally 3 to 5 times a day, half an hour to 1 hour each time.
Before going to bed every night, patients can soak their feet in hot water for about half an hour each time to help promote blood circulation. At the same time, they can also let uric acid crystal dissolve again and discharge out of the body, so as to effectively relieve pain symptoms.
matters needing attention
Eat less food containing high purine, especially do not smoke and drink, do not eat animal fat, seafood, animal liver. But should eat more alkaline food, such as all kinds of fresh vegetables, fruits, nuts and so on.