Gout is a very common disease in daily life. Once gout attacks, it is very uncomfortable and the pain is unbearable, so it needs to be treated in time. So let’s learn how to treat gout. Can it be completely cured? Which department should I see for gout?
How can gout be completely cured?
Traditional Chinese medicine can be considered to treat gout. First of all, gout patients should change their living habits, adopt reasonable formulas, use pure natural Chinese herbal medicine, and insist on low purine. Eating habits, strict abstinence from alcohol, reasonable weight loss, moderate exercise, and drinking more water. Use nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, alkaline drugs, uricosuric drugs, glucocorticoids and other drugs. The most important thing is to take urate-lowering drugs for treatment. Use urate-lowering drugs to control blood uric acid below 360 micromoles per liter. , and if the target is met for a long time, gout will no longer occur. It is recommended that patients exercise appropriately. These are very good ways to control elevated uric acid. They are mainly antipyretic and analgesic, reduce inflammation, immunosuppressive, prevent recurrence, correct hyperuricemia, and prevent urate deposition. Joint destruction and kidney damage.
Which department should you see for gout?
For gout, you can go to the rheumatology and immunology department. Gout may be related to rheumatology, immunology, and orthopedics. Gout is mainly caused by increased purine biosynthesis and metabolism, excessive uric acid secretion or poor uric acid excretion, which leads to an increase in blood uric acid concentration. Uric acid is deposited in joint synovial cartilage and other tissues, causing repeated inflammatory diseases. The clinical manifestations are hyperuricemia, urate deposition, acute arthritis, gouty stones, interstitial nephritis, joint deformity and dysfunction. According to the cause, it can be divided into primary and secondary. Gout is a metabolic rheumatism and a common disease in rheumatology and immunology. Nowadays, the incidence of gout has been gradually increasing, especially among young people. More and more people are suffering from gout. Gout is mainly caused by purine metabolism disorder, which causes the concentration of blood uric acid to increase, thus causing the disease. The clinical manifestation is asymptomatic hyperuricemia. Symptoms such as hemorrhage stage, acute and chronic arthritis.
How many days does it take for gout to go away?
If gout is in the acute attack stage, it will take 3 to 5 days for small joints, and it may take about a week for large joints to enter the remission stage. If gout is not well controlled, it will indeed cause frequent attacks of joint pain. In severe cases, it can also cause urate deposition in the kidneys, affecting kidney function. You must eat a balanced diet, limit the intake of purines, strictly control the intake of meat, seafood, animal offal, and alcohol. Eat more fresh vegetables and fruits, drink more water every day, promote the excretion of uric acid, and increase physical activity. Control your weight, adhere to uric acid-lowering drug treatment, and control blood uric acid levels within the ideal range. For patients with acute gouty arthritis attacks, relief usually takes about two weeks at the longest. If gouty arthritis attacks repeatedly, it may take a long time, and some may last for more than two months. This situation will develop into chronic gouty arthritis. If it is not well controlled, many complications may occur in the later stage, especially kidney damage.
What should you pay attention to when you have gout?
1. Don’t eat “red meat”. The so-called "red meat" refers to pork, mutton and some animal livers. These foods contain high purine content. Eating "red meat" will increase the uric acid content in the body and worsen the condition of gout patients, so they must not Eat red meat. Gout patients should eat more fresh fruits and vegetables and less meat to help control the disease.
2. Don’t drink coffee or strong tea. Gout patients must also refuse coffee and strong tea. Drinking too much coffee and strong tea will cause osteoporosis and aggravate the patient's condition. Therefore, it is recommended that gout patients try to drink boiled water and some light tea or drinks.
3. Gout patients should not eat hot pot. Hot pot is affordable and delicious, with a wide variety of dishes, and is deeply loved by Chinese people. However, hot pot contains a large amount of irritating substances and a large amount of seafood such as fish and shrimp, which is relatively harmful to gout patients. Gout patients must not eat hot pot, otherwise Not conducive to disease control.
4. Don’t drink. Everyone knows that drinking alcohol is harmful to health. Alcohol contains a lot of irritating substances, especially beer. Drinking alcohol will cause the uric acid level in the body to rise sharply, which will increase the chance of gout recurrence. In particular, do not combine beer with seafood* **Consumption of the same food can easily lead to recurrence of the disease.