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In recent years, more and more people have hyperuricemia, and there are hundreds of millions of people in our country alone.
At the end of last year, after many people got the results of “high uric acid” in the physical examination, they quickly left a message to the health care gentleman and wrote an article about uric acid!
No, it’s scheduled now!
Why do people get high uric acid?
Simply put, there are two reasons for high uric acid: the discharge of “waste” exceeds the standard, and the “treatment station” is not effective.
The human body produces about 750 mg of uric acid every day, and this uric acid enters the uric acid pool, which contains about 1200 mg of uric acid. Under normal circumstances, the daily newly generated and excreted uric acid is basically balanced.
Why do some people have high uric acid?
This is very similar to the excess of harmful substances in the environment, either too much is coming in, or too little is discharged.
There are many factors that cause more production and less excretion, but more than 90% are caused by decreased uric acid excretion, and only 10% are due to excessive uric acid production.
Specifically, these reasons lead to less uric acid excretion —
Genetic factors: decreased uric acid clearance and less excretion;
Acquired factors: drugs (such as thiazide diuretics, aspirin, cyclosporine), metabolic diseases (diabetic ketosis, lactic acidosis, “hypothyroidism”, “hyperthyroidism”), hypertension, obesity, etc. .
And for these reasons, uric acid is produced much more-
Genetic factors: hereditary related enzyme defects lead to abnormal metabolism;
Acquired factors: diet (high purine food intake, high fructose diet, high alcohol content in beverages), strenuous exercise, blood disorders (myelodysplasia), use of cytotoxic drugs (eg, chemotherapy drugs) .
If you have high uric acid, what should you pay attention to? I believe the doctor has already told you about it. Next, I will tell you a little detail——
Do these 2 things before bed to help lower uric acid!
1Try not to eat late-night snacks
We all know that diet is absolutely an important part of preventing and treating high uric acid. Many of the things we usually eat contain purines (especially seafood and animal offal). These purines are called exogenous purines (accounting for 20%). When these purines are metabolized by the human liver, our protagonist, uric acid, appears.
Eating supper at night is not good for health. I think everyone is tired of hearing it, but for patients with hyperuricemia, eating supper, especially food with high purine content, is simply worse.
Therefore, it is recommended that patients with hyperuricemia try not to eat late-night snacks. If you want to eat, remember to eat light and low-purine foods.
2Drink some water
If you want to reduce blood uric acid, in addition to taking uric acid-lowering drugs, another doctor emphasized that the method that can effectively reduce uric acid, and at the same time is simple, convenient, economical, and has no side effects, is to drink more water!
The reason is not complicated. Drinking more water can promote the excretion of more uric acid from the urine. The doctor’s recommendation is generally more than 1500 ml a day.
In addition, gout usually attacks at night. Drinking some water before going to bed can prevent the concentration of uric acid and the increase of uric acid during long sleep.
Therefore, hyperuricemia patients and gout patients are especially advised to drink some water before going to bed.
As for what water to drink, boiled water is a safe choice, while sparkling water is often used as a golden partner with uric acid-lowering drugs. Soda water makes the urine alkaline, which also increases the solubility of urate and promotes the excretion of more uric acid.
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