The main reason is that there is too much uric acid in the human body, and urate deposits to form tophi. However, if gout attacks repeatedly, it is difficult to completely eradicate this symptom, which will not only cause local pain and joint disorder, but also damage the skin condition and affect the external image. Therefore, tophi is very harmful to people's physical and mental health, and it must be eliminated as soon as possible.
1, uric acid reduction therapy
Gout stones are mainly precipitated by urate, so gout will appear in all parts of the human body, such as knee joint, ankle joint, elbow joint, auricle, etc., and because it is uric acid is too high in the human body, it will cause gout, which will lead to gout symptoms.
Therefore, in order to avoid the occurrence of gout stones in all parts, we must effectively control gout diseases to reduce the occurrence of gout stones. Therefore, it is necessary to do a good job of uric acid reduction treatment. Patients must follow the doctor's advice and take uric acid-lowering drugs in time, such as common febuxostat and allopurinol. Insisting on taking uric acid-lowering drugs can maintain the stability of uric acid for a long time, prevent the onset of symptoms and effectively prevent the recurrence of gout stones.
2. Alkalized urine
Excessive uric acid in the body will make the environment in the body acidic for a long time, and excessive urate deposition is more likely to form tophi. Therefore, patients can prevent the formation of tophi by improving the internal environment and alkalizing urine. The specific methods of alkalizing urine include eating more alkaline foods, and some foods rich in potassium, sodium and magnesium plasma components are more alkaline, such as Chinese cabbage, cucumber, spinach, figs and coffee. In addition, patients can also improve the internal environment by taking alkaline drugs, but taking drugs must be carried out under the correct guidance of doctors, and drugs cannot be abused, otherwise it is not conducive to stabilizing gout.
3. Drain the salt and remove the tophi.
Salt discharge is actually magnesium sulfate, which belongs to a western medicine and can be taken orally or externally. Magnesium sulfate has a laxative effect. Taking proper amount of salt drainage under the guidance of a doctor is beneficial to discharge the invisible tophus in the body, but it also has some side effects. Too high concentration of discharged salt will easily lead to hypertonic dehydration, while too low concentration will have no effect. In addition, it can also be used externally. After the product is adjusted to an appropriate concentration, it can also play a certain anti-inflammatory and detumescence role by hot compress on the affected area.
4, surgery
Surgical removal of tophus is the most common means, but this operation has certain indications, because surgical removal of tophus is only a symptomatic treatment for tophus that has already appeared, and it can not cure gout radically; When the patient is in the acute attack period of gout, surgery cannot be performed, otherwise it will lead to unstable gout condition and aggravate the harm of gout; Finally, when the tophus is so big that it oppresses the nerves, affects the local function and causes a great burden to the body, it is suggested that tophus should be surgically removed.
There is a high probability of tophi after gout, so once the patient is diagnosed, corresponding treatment measures should be taken in time to stabilize the condition and avoid tophi by improving diet, taking antacids and improving the acidic environment in the body. However, if tophi has already broken out, we should treat it dialectically and adopt the most appropriate treatment scheme to reduce the harm of tophi.
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