Gout patients should eat more low purine food, eat less medium purine food, do not eat high purine food, but also pay attention to do not drink. Low purine food: grains and cereals, eggs, dairy, fruits, vegetables; medium purine food: meat, beans, seafood; high purine food: bean sprouts, soybean sprouts, asparagus, shiitake mushrooms, seaweed, animal offal, fish. Gout is often complicated by obesity, diabetes, hypertension and hyperlipidemia, patients should comply with the dietary principles are as follows:

1. Maintain an ideal body weight, overweight or obesity should be reduced weight. However, weight reduction should be gradual, otherwise it may easily lead to ketosis or acute attack of gout.

2. Carbohydrates can promote uric acid discharge, patients can eat carbohydrate-rich rice, steamed buns, pasta and so on.

3. Protein can be consumed according to body weight, according to the proportion, 1 kilogram of body weight should take 0.8 grams to 1 gram of protein, and to milk, eggs. If it is lean meat, chicken and duck meat, etc., it should be boiled and go to the soup to eat, avoid eating stewed or brined meat.

4. Eat less fat, because fat can reduce uric acid discharge. For those with gout complicated by hyperlipidemia, fat intake should be controlled within 20% to 25% of total calories.

5. Drink a lot of water, you should drink 2,000ml to 3,000ml of water per day to promote uric acid elimination.

6. Eat less salt, which should be limited to 2 grams to 5 grams a day.

7. Ban alcohol! Alcohol tends to accumulate lactic acid in the body, which has an inhibitory effect on uric acid elimination and easily induces gout.

8. Use less strongly stimulating condiments or spices.

9. Limit purine intake. Purine is a component of the cell nucleus, as long as the food containing cells contain purine, animal food is more purine content. Patients are forbidden to eat offal, bone marrow, seafood, fermented foods, beans and so on.

10. It is not advisable to use drugs that inhibit the excretion of uric acid.