Can you drink alcohol in rheumatism? Precautions for drinking alcohol in rheumatism patients
Rheumatism is relatively common in the elderly group, and people who have been busy all their lives, when they reach middle and old age, they want to enjoy life. Some people like to drink alcohol, and it's not uncommon to have a drink before a meal. Can rheumatism patients drink alcohol? Is it OK for rheumatic patients to drink alcohol? Let's take a look patiently and pay attention to the details inside.
1. You can drink less
Rheumatic disease is an autoimmune disease that invades a variety of tissues of the body, a variety of systems and internal organs, different degrees of rheumatic diseases, its inflammatory response will be different, and some rheumatism is a wind-cold rheumatism, alcoholic heat, a small amount of alcohol, can activate blood stasis, drive away cold, and have a certain pain-relieving effect on local cold arthritis, so it is beneficial for wind-cold rheumatism patients to drink a small amount.
2. Drink too much
Alcohol contains irritating substances that can irritate the joints, which can aggravate rheumatic pain, especially liquor, and excessive alcohol consumption can also trigger gout attacks. Moreover, alcohol will lead to an increase in the concentration of blood lactate, and lactic acid can inhibit the excretion of uric acid by the kidneys, and alcohol can also promote the conversion of adenine nucleotides to increase your secret calculation, which will affect the concentration level of blood uric acid in the human body, so rheumatism patients should drink a small amount of alcohol.
3. Warm reminder
Not all rheumatism patients can drink alcohol, and in a broad sense, it is better for rheumatism patients not to drink alcohol, so as not to aggravate the rheumatic condition, and there are also some adverse effects on the treatment.
Because alcohol tends to cause the dilation of blood vessels around the joints, which makes the synovial congestion and swelling of the joints worse, rheumatism patients should not do alcoholism. In addition, rheumatism patients should pay attention to keeping warm, have the habit of reading the weather forecast, get the temperature in advance, and also add clothes before cooling down, so as to prevent the onset of rheumatism.