A tophi attack is painful? In addition to surgical treatment, it is also necessary to do these 5 points to prevent recurrence!
Tophi is a typical manifestation of gout attacks in the late stage, mainly because a large number of uric acid crystals are deposited in the joints, resulting in the formation of tophi. The impact of tophi is very large, and severe patients even need amputation, so it is best to treat it early, but after treatment, gout still needs to be controlled, otherwise the probability of recurrence is very high.
How do you care for someone with tophi?
1. Drug control to reduce uric acid
After tophi treatment, it is still necessary to take medication, because tophi surgery only excretes uric acid crystals from the joint, but the body still maintains a high level of uric acid, so it is necessary to use drugs to continuously reduce uric acid. And after surgery, tophi is not guaranteed to be completely removed, there may still be a part of urate crystals in the joints, which requires continuous use of drugs to help tophi be absorbed by the body, so as to reduce the damage to the body.
2. Anti-inflammatory and analgesic treatment
Even after the tophi is removed, the patient's joints are severely damaged, and a certain amount of anti-inflammatory and analgesic drugs are still needed after treatment. The common ones are colchicine and non-steroidal drugs, but after the gout is treated, the dose of these drugs can be appropriately reduced, and if the original dose is still used, the side effects of the drugs may be greater.
3. Dietary conditioning
Patients with gout still need long-term diet after treatment, because tophi may reappear due to high uric acid. Therefore, you still can't eat foods with too high purine content in your life, and you can supplement nutrients appropriately, but you need to control the type of supplementation, and some foods with higher sugar content can also not be used.
4. Exercise
It is necessary for patients who have been treated with tophi to exercise, because surgery cannot solve the problem of joint damage, and occasional exercise can secrete synovial fluid in the joint, help the joint to better protect the joint, and can play a certain role in repair. When exercising, we must pay attention to avoid strenuous exercise, and properly carry out aerobic exercise to adjust the body's metabolic and circulatory functions. Otherwise, too strenuous exercise will damage the joints, and it may also cause the body to secrete too much lactic acid, which will further increase uric acid.
5. Care for joints
After surgery, the joint is still in a state of damage, and it is necessary to strengthen the care of the diseased joint in life, because the diseased joint may cause gout again due to high uric acid, or other arthritis due to the impact of the injury. In life, it is necessary to maintain the blood circulation of local joints, occasionally massage the joints, and keep the joints warm when the temperature drops, so as to avoid damage to the joints.
Patients with tophi also need regular follow-up examinations after surgery to rule out the danger of gout, because no matter what kind of surgery, there may be some urate crystals or tophi remaining, which may cause the patient to have another gout symptoms. In addition, the follow-up examination is also conducive to the patient's control of uric acid, and if the long-term control effect can be achieved, the harm of gout will be completely eliminated.
Shocking! The man's toe joint takes out the "goose egg-big" tophi!