Once gout is diagnosed, it is necessary to prepare for gout for life.
Early warning of gout
Gout is a group of diseases caused by purine metabolism disorder. Its clinical features are hyperuricemia and recurrent gouty acute arthritis, tophi deposition, chronic arthritis of tophi and joint deformity, which often involve the kidney and cause chronic interstitial nephritis and uric acid kidney calculi. In severe cases, joint disability and renal insufficiency may occur.
The common body parts of tophi are articular cartilage, synovial sac, spiral, tendon sheath, tissues around joints, subcutaneous tissue and renal interstitium.
If you find yourself with similar small nodules recently, you should be alert and pay attention, which may be an early warning signal of gout.
Gout can occur at any age, but it mostly occurs around 40 years old, and about 95% is male.
At the initial stage of the disease, a single joint (90%) is often invaded, mostly the thumb joint and the first metatarsophalangeal joint, and then the arch, ankle, heel, knee, wrist, finger and elbow joint may be invaded.
Therefore, for men over middle age, we should consider the sudden redness, swelling, pain and dyskinesia of the first metatarsophalangeal toe and other single joints, and the increase of blood uric acid, and seek medical attention in time.
Although gout is caused by metabolic disorder, reasonable diet control is helpful to prevent the onset of the disease.
Below, I have compiled a purine content table for everyone, hoping that everyone will stay away from gout.
Note: The data is the content of purine per100g, in mg, and the content is sorted from left to right, from low to high.
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The above is "classification from low to high content", and the following are "low purine diet, medium purine diet and high purine diet" for easy inquiry.
According to the different purine content in food, food can be divided into:
Low-purine food (less than 25mg purine per 100g food)
Medium purine food (purine content per 100g food is 25150mg);
High purine food (100g food contains purine 150 1000mg).
1. The main diet of gout patients: foods with low purine content.
2. Gout patients can eat a small amount during the period without attack: food with moderate purine content.
3. Gout patients should try not to eat: foods with high purine content.
Several misunderstandings of gout
# 1
Gout is a senile disease? No!
Gout patients are not all elderly men, but young people and postmenopausal women also suffer from gout.
#2
Gout is joint pain? No!
Gout can not only cause painful arthritis, but also cause tophi, uric acid nephropathy, gouty urinary calculi, hyperuricemia, arteriosclerosis and so on.
#3
Is it cured after remission? No!
Gouty arthritis has a characteristic that it can recur. At present, medical technology can not completely cure gout. It is necessary to control the serum uric acid in the normal range for a long time to avoid risk factors and prevent gout recurrence.
#4
Gout is not a painless disease? No!
Asymptomatic hyperuricemia, gout remission period, intermittent period, may be asymptomatic or the symptoms are not obvious, but hyperuricemia can still promote gout and even induce other injuries.
Therefore, even painless gout requires non-drug and drug treatment under the guidance of a doctor to reduce uric acid.
#5
The lower the serum uric acid level, the better. No!
Uric acid is an important biochemical substance in human body and has important physiological functions. Appropriate serum uric acid concentration is beneficial to antioxidation, balance immune function and increase anti-infection ability in vivo. Hypouricemia is related to many nervous system diseases.
#6
Can inflammation caused by gout be treated with antibiotics? No!
The acute attack of gouty arthritis is not treated with antibiotics, because gouty arthritis is non-infectious crystalline arthritis, and colchicine and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs are suitable for controlling acute symptoms.