Causes of gout

Everyone should be familiar with diseases like gout. There are many gout patients in normal times. The occurrence of gout will have a great impact on our lives. There are many types of gout. Gout in the feet and hands are very common. The most important cause of gout is bad eating habits, which is also the reason why people nowadays are prone to gout. Let’s take a look at the causes of gout.

Many people should know about gout. Gout has also occurred in daily life. The harm of gout is very great. Gout patients should understand its cause so that they can prevent it as early as possible. Today we will introduce the cause of gout to you.

Causes

Improper diet is an important cause of gout. The role of gout dietary nutritional treatment is to prevent or alleviate acute attacks of gout, avoid the extension of acute attacks, reduce the deposition of urate in the body, prevent the formation of uric acid stones, and reduce the use of anti-uric acid drugs, thereby reducing their side effects. Patients in the acute attack period are not recommended to take warm and tonic foods, should eat less "blood, flesh and emotion" products, and cooperate with drug treatment. During the stable remission period, you can follow the gout diet principles and choose tonic according to your own physical condition. For example, those with weak constitution can eat appropriate amounts of pork, eggs, cream, walnuts, etc., and those with qi and blood deficiency can take Codonopsis pilosula, Pseudostellaria pseudoginseng, Chinese angelica, longan, etc.

The general principle of dietary nutritional treatment for gout is "three lows and one high", namely, a low-purine diet, weight loss, a low-salt and low-fat diet, and drinking plenty of water.

Avoid the intake of high-purine foods. Foods high in purine can easily induce and aggravate gout symptoms, so you must control the intake. Foods high in purines mainly include animal offal (including heart, liver, intestines, and tripe), soybeans, mushrooms, thick gravy, marine fish, shellfish, yeast, etc.

Avoid the intake of alcoholic beverages. Drinking is an important factor in inducing acute gout, so drinking must be avoided. Alcoholic beverages mainly include white wine, beer, wine, dry red wine, rice wine, and distiller's grains.

Reduce the intake of foods with moderate purine content. Although foods with moderate purine content cannot quickly induce gout, it is not advisable to consume too much of them and should be reduced as much as possible. These foods mainly include chicken, goose, pork, beef, grass carp, carp, cashews, peanuts, lentils, spinach, asparagus, mushrooms, celery, etc.

Eat appropriate amounts of low-purine foods such as wheat, barley, oats, rice, millet, cornmeal, butter, vegetable oil, coffee, honey, walnuts, most vegetables and fruits, cola, soda, etc.

With the improvement of living standards and changes in dietary structure, the incidence of gout has increased year by year. It has now become a common metabolic disease among middle-aged and elderly people in China. Clinical manifestations include repeated attacks of acute arthritis, formation of gout stones, chronic arthritis and joint deformities, as well as renal uric acid stones and gouty nephropathy, and even renal failure in the later stages of the disease.

Everyone should know the cause of gout. There are many symptoms when gout occurs, especially acute gout, which can affect many parts of the body and cause fever, stiffness, swelling, and pain. If an attack occurs, the condition will last for many days, causing great pain to the patient, so it must be treated as soon as possible.