As soon as summer arrives, gout also enters a new round of high incidence.
The so-called gout mainly refers to an arthritic disease caused by continuously high blood uric acid levels, which leads to uric acid crystals and deposits in the joints.
Once suffering from gout, any joint may have an inflammatory reaction of redness, swelling, heat and pain, and in severe cases, the patient’s activities will be directly restricted.
Although gout occurs all year round, summer is often the season of high incidence of gout.
Why gout always attacks in summer?
First, dietary factors
The cause of gout is due to the high level of blood uric acid in the body, and uric acid It is a metabolite of purine substances.
In summer, many people especially like to eat seafood or meat. These foods are high purine foods, and they are paired with cold beer.
The mouth is refreshing for a while, but the body is miserable. A large amount of purines undoubtedly contributes to the increase of uric acid.
Second, bad habits
Some bad living habits in summer can also induce gout.
For example, prolonged exposure to cold or damp will also affect the body’s excretion of uric acid, resulting in the inability of the body to excrete uric acid quickly, resulting in a rapid increase in the level of uric acid, resulting in the appearance of gout.
In addition, summer is hot and sweats a lot, which leads to a decrease in body water and a significant increase in blood uric acid concentration. If sufficient water is not replenished in time, it is likely to induce acute gout attacks.
In the hot summer, how should patients prevent gout?
1. Avoid seafood and barbecue
Because some seafood and internal organs are high purine foods.
After the purine is metabolized, more uric acid will be produced, and it will form crystals and accumulate in the joints and body fluids, thereby causing the appearance of gout, which needs to be avoided as much as possible in both the acute phase and the remission phase.
Although most of the meat in the barbecue has moderate purine content, too much intake will also lead to increased uric acid and gout attacks.
2. Try to drink as little as possible
beer Not to mention, the purine itself is high, and it contains a lot of guanylic acid. This component will form more purines after the human body metabolizes, resulting in excessive uric acid, and gout patients have to follow Say goodbye to beer!
But it is best to drink less of other wines. After all, liquors with higher alcohol content will also increase uric acid. After the alcohol contained in liquor enters the human body, it will speed up the metabolism and produce more uric acid, which will cause The increase of lactic acid will affect the excretion of uric acid, which will make the uric acid level continue to rise and cause gout to appear.
The relationship between red wine and gout attack has not been found so far.
However, from a health point of view, alcohol itself is harmful and not beneficial, so drink less alcohol!
3. Avoid cold
especially It is for people who have high uric acid or suffer from gout, they must not suffer from cold in summer.
Once the air conditioner is blown for a long time or bathed in cold water, the local blood vessels will contract abnormally, resulting in delayed blood supply. And it will cause the local deposition of uric acid in the blood, which will induce the appearance of gout.
Since urate crystallizes easily in a cooler environment, it deposits around the joints, causing arthritis attacks, which is why gout tends to attack at night one.
4. Timely add water
summer The weather itself is hot and sweating increases, which will easily lead to blood concentration and a relative increase in uric acid. Do not cause excessive water shortage in the body, otherwise it will affect the body’s metabolism of uric acid, making the blood uric acid level too high and causing gout.
It is recommended to reach about 2000ml per day, boiled water and light tea are all good choices.
Orotic acid in milk and yogurt also promotes the excretion of uric acid by the kidneys, as well as casein and lactalbumin It has the effect of promoting the excretion of uric acid, and at the same time glycomacropeptide and G600 milk fat extract have anti-inflammatory effects, thereby reducing the inflammatory response during gout attacks.
5. Adhere to taking medicine to lower uric acid
For the excessive uric acid value For people with high blood pressure or suffering from gout, if there is sudden joint pain in summer, as well as skin redness and heat reaction, they should go to a regular hospital quickly.
According to the research,< strong>The lower the blood uric acid, the lower the gout recurrence rate. When the blood uric acid was less than 300 μmol/L, the gout recurrence rate was less than 10%.
Insisting on taking uric acid-lowering drugs, Keeping uric acid low will reduce gout attacks.
References:
【1】Shoji, A, Yamanaka, H, and Kamatani, N. (2004). A retrospective study on the relationship between serum uric acid levels and recurrence of gouty arthritis: Antihyperuricemic therapy reduces recurrent gouty arthritis Evidence for Arthritis and Rheumatism, 51(3), 321-325.