Now that living conditions are better, more and more people are suffering from gout. Once the gout attacks, it is difficult to sleep or sleep.
Many gout patients pay extra attention to their diet in order to avoid gout attacks, but there are still many cases where they are still deeply troubled by gout despite strictly controlling their diet, eating less meat and not drinking alcohol. .
So what factors can cause gout attacks?
1. High-purine foods
Seafood, red meat, and animal offal are common high-purine foods, and gout patients must eat less.
When cooking meat food, it is best to blanch it with water first, and then stir fry it, so that some of the purines in the meat can be dissolved in the water to reduce the intake of purines.
In addition to meat, common condiments such as chili, ginger, curry, and mustard are also prone to trigger gout attacks. Gout patients should eat less. If you want to increase your appetite, you can choose condiments such as balsamic vinegar. Safer and healthier.
2. Insufficient drinking water
Gout usually It is all caused by the high level of uric acid in the body. Therefore, adding enough water to the body can promote the excretion of uric acid. When the concentration of uric acid in the blood is reduced, gout will naturally be less likely to occur.
Gout patients need more water than normal people. It is recommended that gout patients drink 2 to 3L of water per day to achieve the effect of reducing uric acid.
In addition, you should also pay attention to drinking water in small amounts and several times. Don’t fill a large glass at once, and drink slowly to allow your body to fully absorb water.
3. Drinking alcohol
Alcohol enters the human body Later, after liver metabolism, the transformed products will increase the level of lactic acid in the body and inhibit the excretion of uric acid. If the level of uric acid increases, it will cause gout, and uric acid crystals will accumulate in the kidneys and joints, forming tophi.
4. High-sugar diet
Although high-sugar diet does not contain purines, fructose is also the culprit of gout. Because the metabolites produced by fructose in the human body will promote the synthesis of uric acid, it will also affect the level of insulin and inhibit the excretion of uric acid.
5. Unreasonable exercise
Exercise It is a double-edged sword. Too little exercise can easily lead to poor metabolism of uric acid and cause hyperuricemia.
Excessive exercise can also cause the accumulation of lactic acid, which is not conducive to the excretion of uric acid, thereby causing gout.
Therefore, maintaining an appropriate amount of exercise can reduce the level of uric acid in the blood, stabilize blood pressure, reduce blood lipids, and avoid gout caused by factors such as hypertension, hyperlipidemia, diabetes, and obesity.
6. Do not pay attention to protecting the joints
A characteristic of gout is that once injured joints are more prone to gout. Therefore, the first location of gout for many people is the first metatarsophalangeal joint, or the knee joint, ankle joint, wrist, finger and elbow joint.
These joints are high-frequency joints. Over time, some damage will naturally accumulate, causing changes in the joint structure, and uric acid is more likely to deposit on the surface of such joints, just like blood vessels. After plaque, blood clots are more likely to occur.
Many factors can lead to a gout attack, such as high purine foods, insufficient drinking water, alcohol, high sugar diet , Unreasonable exercise, not paying attention to protecting the joints, etc. will lead to an increase in the level of uric acid in the body and induce gout.
To avoid gout, you must stay away from the above triggering factors in your daily life and develop good living habits.