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It's the annual Spring Festival again, everyone is celebrating the Spring Festival, there are more gatherings, and there are a lot more people eating and drinking, right.
For gout patients, it is necessary to control the diet well, try to reduce the incidence of gout patients during the Spring Festival, and avoid stepping on it.
to a gout minefield.
The essence of gout is that the level of uric acid in the body increases, and urate is precipitated in the joints and bones, causing joint swelling and pain. For gout patients, drinking alcohol is one of the very important triggers for gout attacks, drinking alcohol will not only lead to an increase in uric acid production, but also lead to uric acid excretion disorders, if you usually do not control uric acid well, then drinking alcohol during the Spring Festival is likely to lead to a relatively large fluctuation of uric acid, inducing gout attacks. Therefore, it is recommended that patients with pain must strictly limit their alcohol intake during the Spring Festival, and can consume a small amount of red wine (no more than 200 ml), but beer, liquor, including rice wine, must be strictly restricted.
In addition to controlling alcohol consumption, patients with gout also need to pay attention to other things, such as some people's habits"Complement form with form", because the gout hurts in the bones, drink more bone broth. In fact, this is a wrong approach, because after the bones are boiled into soup, the fat will emulsify, and eating too much will cause metabolic disorders and increase the three high risks.
In addition, the purines in the bones are easily soluble in the soup, and the purine content of the soup is much higher than that of the meat, so it is best not to put the old soup when gout patients are cooking.
The Chinese New Year, in addition to drinking, all kinds of drinks are indispensable, and now many people are particularly keen on freshly squeezed juices, thinking that they are fresh and nutritious, but for gout patients. Fruit juice contains a lot of fructose, which not only hinders the metabolism of uric acid, but also raises uric acid. Surveys have shown that women who drink one and more than two servings of orange juice per day have a 41% and 142% increased risk of developing gout, respectively. In addition to some freshly squeezed fruit juices, carbonated drinks also need to be paid attention to, because carbonated drinks have a high sugar content, which will affect the metabolism of purines, resulting in an increase in uric acid levels, and it is also easy to cause changes in calcium metabolism, induce kidney stones, and damage the kidneys. The kidneys are the main organs of uric acid metabolism, and once damaged, it is easy to induce gouty nephropathy.
Eating hot pot during the Chinese New Year is a favorite of the Chinese people's diet, and hot pot is equivalent to a hodgepodge, and all kinds of ingredients can be soaked in it. This also increases the risk of high purine intake. Because hot pot contains a large number of purine-containing food raw materials, such as animal offal, seafood, etc., plus as soon as you eat hot pot, the atmosphere will come up, and it is inevitable to drink a wine, drink or something, which will increase the risk of gout aggravation. According to some research investigations, the purine intake of a hot pot is more than ten times higher than that of a full meal.
Therefore, for gout patients, there is a dietary principle that must be remembered: eat less high-purine foods, eat some medium-purine foods appropriately, eat more low-purine foods, reasonably control uric acid levels, and avoid excessive uric acid causing gout and worsening the condition. Eat more cereals, eggs, milk, fruits, vegetables, their purine content is still relatively low, try to eat less high-purine foods, such as bean sprouts, seaweed, asparagus, shiitake mushrooms, animal offal, fish, etc. In addition, patients with gout should try not to drink alcohol, because the ethanol in alcohol can promote the conversion of adenine nucleotides and increase uric acid, which can cause gout. Drinking plenty of water every day is conducive to the excretion of uric acid.
Ouyang YuanmingChief Physician of the Department of Orthopedics and Joint Surgery, Shanghai Sixth People's Hospital, MDBoGraduate Supervisor