Baking soda is also called sodium bicarbonate, and it often appears in life. The sodium bicarbonate solid begins to gradually decompose above 50 to form sodium carbonate, water and carbon dioxide gas. This characteristic is often used as a Leavening agent for biscuits, pastries, steamed buns and bread. Of course, many people like to drink soda water in daily life, which also contains sodium bicarbonate.

Baking soda is also useful in medicine, and is generally used to treat excessive gastric acid secretion. When many gout patients first take medicine, they will find that it is also included in the medicines prescribed by some doctors. Many patients will wonder, why should they eat this? Can this common thing in life also treat gout?

What effect does baking soda have on lowering uric acid?

Sodium bicarbonate is not a uric acid-lowering drug. Sodium bicarbonate alkalizes urine and helps uric acid to be excreted from urine. But sodium bicarbonate is not a true uric acid-lowering drug. Therefore, friends who suffer from gout and high uric acid must not think that drinking soda can lower uric acid.

Daily precautions for friends with high uric acid and gout

1. Eat a low-purine diet. Do not eat high-purine foods such as seafood and red meat. You can eat duck, chicken and other medium-purine foods appropriately. food.

2. Drink more boiled water, more than 2000ml per day, and reduce the intake of fructose drinks. In addition to purine, fructose is also the skeleton that forms the structure of uric acid.

3. Quit smoking and limit alcohol consumption. Instead of drinking liquor and beer, you can drink less red wine.

4. Insist on regular exercise, moderate intensity exercise every day, avoid strenuous exercise, and the exercise time is preferably more than 30 minutes.

5. To lose weight, control your weight within the normal range by controlling your diet and strengthening exercise.

6. If uric acid is high, it is important to review it and know in time whether your uric acid level reaches the standard.