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The harm of gout is not only in the joints, but also causes serious complications such as gouty nephropathy, hypertension, and diabetes. If you do not adhere to the standard diagnosis and treatment, gout will be repeated. Some patients, forced by gout, begin to go to extremes.
Extreme behavior 1: Drinking too much water
Whether gout patients should drink more water or not is definitely necessary. Drinking plenty of water can help promote uric acid excretion. However, drinking too much water is also not okay and will increase the burden on the kidneys, leading to decreased urine, edema of the limbs, elevated blood uric acid, and even the appearance of kidney stones and other serious complications.
Extreme behavior 2: Eat a lot of uric acid-lowering drugs
Does gout need uric acid lowering? Definitely need. But! You can't take too many uric acid-lowering drugs at once. If uric acid drops too quickly all at once, it will induce an acute attack of gout, and it is easy to appear**. It is best to reduce uric acid by no more than 60 mol l per month. This requires the patient to follow the doctor's instructions and have their blood uric acid levels checked regularly.
Some urate-lowering drugs have a strong uric acid-lowering effect, so you can recheck your blood uric acid after taking them for about two weeks. If the serum uric acid level is still high after two weeks, the specialist will usually increase the dose or change the drug as appropriate.
Extreme behavior three: crazy taboo
As soon as I entered the gout door, half a monk. Many people think that if they have gout, as long as they don't get a little bit of meat, uric acid can go down, and gout can be cured. But in fact, let alone eating only vegetarian and not eating meat, even if you eat white water and rice, it can only reduce the overall uric acid by about 20%, far from the "target value". In the end, he tortured himself to the point of malnutrition.
Of course, it is necessary to control the diet properly. However, it is often difficult to achieve the target level of blood uric acid by controlling the diet alone. Diet is not the main cause of high uric acid, so in the same way, uric acid cannot be lowered just by not eating.
Extreme behavior 4: Taking multiple painkillers at the same time
Many patients have joint pain that is becoming more and more difficult to stop with painkillers due to the aggravation of the condition. Therefore, some people with gout will take multiple painkillers and even hormonal drugs at the same time. This is absolutely wrong behavior.
In addition, it is necessary to pay attention to the restraint between drugs, so you need to inform the attending doctor in advance of which drugs you are also taking, so as not to affect the efficacy of the drugs.
Extreme behavior 5: Crazy movement or immobility
Proper exercise can maintain the physique or restore the function of the joints, and doing some gentle exercises can maintain the flexibility of the joints. However, during the acute swelling and pain period of our joints, rest is required
Respond scientifically and insist on regular review
Patients with gout should be actively regulated before the disease causes irreversible damage to various organs of the body**, and the longer the course of the disease, the more serious the disease will be. The sooner you catch it, the sooner you can detect it, the sooner you can reduce the pain and shorten the cycle of gout.