What are the symptoms of gout? How can I prevent gout?

Gout is a joint disease, gout is more common in middle-aged men, women account for only 5%, mainly postmenopausal women, gout occurs at a younger age. In addition, gout is often accompanied by abdominal obesity, hyperlipidemia, hypertension, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. So what are the symptoms of gout? How can I prevent gout? Let's take a look.

1. What are the symptoms of gout?

Gout is an ancient disease. In the past, gout mostly occurred in high-ranking officials and nobles who lived a prosperous life and had no worries about food and clothing, and it was given a nice name - imperial disease. In modern society, with the substantial improvement of people's living standards, the food on the table is becoming more and more abundant, and people have to pay attention to the fact that the incidence of gout has increased by 48% in the past ten years. Today, gout has another name – the "king of diseases". Only by detecting gout symptoms in advance can we achieve early detection and early treatment.

Symptoms of gout

(1) Symptoms of gout in the acute attack period: the attack time is usually in the second half of the night. The symptoms of gout at this stage are pain, swelling, redness in the ankle or toe joints, arms and finger joints, accompanied by severe pain. Microscopic observation reveals pine needle-like urate precipitation in the affected tissue. It is a severe pain caused by urate precipitation. Please note that the serum uric acid at the onset of the disease is lower than the usual maximum due to the precipitate in the blood.

(2) Symptoms of gout in the intermittent period: The main manifestation of gout symptoms at this stage is high blood uric acid concentration. The so-called intermittent period refers to the interval between the two episodes of gout, which is usually a few months to a year. If urate-lowering methods are not used, attacks will be frequent, the pain will be worse, and the course of the disease will be prolonged.

(3) Gout symptoms in the chronic phase: The main manifestations of gout symptoms at this stage are the presence of tophi, chronic arthritis, uric acid stones and gouty diseasenephritisand complications. At this time, gout attacks are frequent, and tophi begin to appear in the body parts, and the tophi gradually becomes larger as time goes on.

2. How to prevent gout

(1) In life, we should do a good job of proper physical exercise to improve our own resistance. Pay attention to rest, avoid overwork, and pay attention to the combination of work and rest. Nowadays, some patients still use ventilated tea to treat gout, which is convenient to use, and has a fast effect, safe and healthy without side effects, so it is favored by many patients.

(2) Drinking a large cup of hot water or hot ginger soup in the morning can reduce blood viscosity, clean up gastrointestinal garbage, and ward off cold. Patients with gout should drink plenty of hot water every day, especially drinking water in the early stage can promote the excretion of uric acid, and keep drinking between 2000ml and 3000ml. Be sure not to drink drinks, because drinks contain more fructose, which is metabolized to produce uric acid, which can easily cause gout attacks. It is forbidden to drink cold drinks, low temperature will reduce the metabolic ability of the spleen, stomach, liver and kidney, and even lead to metabolic disorders.

(3) Gout patients should develop the habit of eating breakfast, breakfast is mainly health porridge (millet, barley porridge, etc.), in order to supplement protein, you can choose to eat an egg for breakfast every day, skipping breakfast is easy to cause blood uric acid to rise, which is easy to cause gallstones, diabetes and other diseases.

3. Dietary health care for gout

(1) 250 grams of cabbage, add 20 grams of vegetable oil and stir-fry. It should be taken regularly. Suitable for the remission of gout.

(2) 250 grams of eggplant are washed and steamed, cut into strips, mixed with soy sauce, sesame oil, salt, garlic paste and monosodium glutamate, and taken every other day, suitable for gout authors.

(3) 250 grams of potatoes, 30 grams of vegetable oil first stir-fry, then add 30 grams of soy sauce, a small amount of salt until cooked before eating, suitable for gout authors.

(4) 250 grams of radish washed and cut into cubes, 50 grams of vegetable oil and stir-fried, followed by 30 grams of cypress kernels, 500 ml of water, boiled until cooked, add a small amount of salt, eat radish and soup.

4. Nursing care of gout patients

1. Patients with gout should strengthen functional exercise and control the predisposing factors during the recovery period. All activities should avoid overuse and tension of the damaged joint, and at the same time prevent mental stimulation, excessive fatigue, cold and dampness, local joint damage and other triggering factors to prevent aggravation of the condition.

2. In the acute attack of gout, bed rest should be taken, the affected limb should be elevated, and weight bearing should be avoided, and bed rest can reduce physical exertion, protect joint function and avoid joint damage.

3. The conditions are dry, ventilated and damp, avoid cold, avoid excessive fatigue, go outdoors more often, and breathe fresh air.

4. We should adhere to the principles of low-purine (or non-purine) diet, low-calorie, low-fat, low-salt control and high-water supply. Drink more water to increase the excretion of uric acid, and it is best to drink more than 2000ml of water every day.