Doctors generally advise people with high uric acid to try not to eat foods rich in purine, such as seafood and animal offal. Animal offal is easy to say, but people who like seafood can't stand not eating seafood. In fact, if people with high uric acid pay attention to some key issues, they can actually let people with high uric acid eat seafood in three ways.
Method 1: Eat seafood with less purine.
Seafood doesn't mean you can't eat it at all, but you need to eat it selectively. People who eat high uric acid seafood should choose some seafood with low purine content, such as sea cucumber, jellyfish, laver and other seafood with purine content below 50mg/ 100g, and seafood fish with purine content below 150mg/ 100g, such as eel, eel, salmon, cod, perch, lobster, squid and a few shellfish. However, it is forbidden to eat seafood with purine content higher than 150mg/ 100g, such as oysters, clams, scallops and mackerel.
Method 2: Boil the soup before eating.
Purine content is high not only in seafood and animal viscera, but also in seasonings such as chicken essence and monosodium glutamate, as well as in oyster sauce, shrimp sauce and mayonnaise. If you want to eat seafood, you can remove some purines contained in the ingredients by steaming or boiling. When cooking, try to use the simplest seasonings such as salt and ginger, and use a small amount. After cooking, the purine components are basically in the soup, so you should filter the soup when eating.
Method 3: Tea-assisted diuresis
There must be a difference between eating seafood and not eating seafood. Even if you only take a little, you should try to reduce the burden on your body in many ways. So, you can start with urination. Urinating can help the body excrete uric acid. People with high uric acid should drink at least 2000 ml of water every day. If they eat seafood, they can add 500ml.
Smilax glabra is a Chinese medicine suitable for high uric acid consumption. It is a Liliaceae plant, and its roots can be used. It is washed, dried and sliced and used as medicine. Smilax glabra has diuretic effect, which can increase urine volume and excrete uric acid through the increase of urine volume. Moreover, compared with ordinary poria cocos, it can not only diuresis, but also dredge joints, and has a good relieving effect on gout caused by uric acid crystallization entering joints.
Smilax glabra can be boiled in pieces and drunk, or it can be broken into powder and brewed daily, which is helpful to alleviate the problem of uric acid, especially after eating seafood, and has the function of regulating the spleen and stomach. When eating Smilax glabra, you should pay attention to the problem of liver and kidney yin deficiency. At the same time, Poria cocos can't be cooked with iron, which will destroy the ingredients of Poria cocos and affect its efficacy, and it can't be drunk with traditional tea.
High uric acid is not a terrible problem. As long as you know your uric acid level and cooperate with the above three methods, it is no problem to eat seafood in moderation.