How is gout treated

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Gout is a chronic metabolic disorder with genetic tendency. Due to the congenital defect of metabolic enzymes in the patient's body, after eating purine rich food or drinking alcohol, the uric acid produced in the blood is too much and cannot be excreted, which stimulates the synovium of joints and causes local acute swelling and pain. In the treatment, we must treat both the symptoms and the root causes, control diet, strictly limit purine rich food, pay attention to lose weight, control weight and increase physical activity. Here is how to treat gout.

How is gout treated

First: to maintain the ideal weight, overweight or obesity should lose weight. However, weight loss should be gradual, otherwise it is easy to lead to ketosis or gout acute attack. Carbohydrates can promote uric acid excretion, patients can eat carbohydrate rich rice, steamed bread, pasta and so on.

Second: drinking water can excrete uric acid, gout patients drink as much water as possible. Protein can be taken according to body weight and proportion. 1 kg body weight should take 0.8 g to 1 G protein, mainly milk and eggs. If it is lean meat, chicken and duck meat, should be boiled to soup, avoid stew or stewed meat.

Third: eat less fat, because fat can reduce uric acid excretion. In patients with gout complicated with hyperlipidemia, the fat intake should be controlled within 20% to 25% of the total calories. Patients with gout should wear comfortable shoes and need timely treatment

matters needing attention

Drink more water, eat more vegetables and drink less soup. Gout patients should drink more boiled water and less broth, fish soup, chicken soup, hot pot soup, etc. Because drinking more water is also a kind of treatment, it can dilute uric acid, accelerate excretion, and reduce uric acid level. Drinking water to drink boiled water, because the osmotic pressure of boiled water is most conducive to dissolve all kinds of harmful substances in the body. Eating more vegetables is good for reducing purine intake and increasing vitamin C and cellulose. Soup contains a lot of purine components, drink not only can not dilute uric acid, but because of the high content of nuclear protein in meat, resulting in increased uric acid. Gout patients can eat cooked meat instead of soup, because the soup may have been dissolved in 50% of purine.