Gout is actually a disease related to the joints. Gout patients must pay special attention to their diet. Most doctors say that gout is more likely to occur in the elderly, so gout is difficult to cure and generally relies on drugs. The role of gout or the way you eat can make your body better, which requires us to detect such diseases as early as possible. So what are the symptoms of gout? How to effectively relieve gout?
1. What are the symptoms of gout?
1. Pain, mostly at night, the most common part is the big toe
2. Fingers, toes or feet Pain can occur
3. The painful area is hot, swollen, and red
4. The painful joint is extremely sensitive
5. The skin above the joint is red or Purple
6. Limited joint movement
7. After the pain is relieved, the skin may be itchy and fall off
2. How to relieve gout attacks
1. Local cold compress
When a gout attack occurs, you can use an ice pack or ice mineral water to apply cold compress to the painful joint for 20 to 30 minutes. Cold compresses can reduce local inflammation and pain. Be careful not to apply heat or soak your feet in hot water. Rising temperature will aggravate inflammation, edema and make the pain worse.
2. Drink more water
Drinking more water can produce more urine, take away more uric acid, and prevent urinary tract stones. The average daily urine output of normal people is about 1.5L, but those with gout should ensure that they drink more than 2L of water every day. Low-calorie, alkaline drinks are very suitable for gout patients, such as soda. Of course, those who don’t like soda water can also choose boiled water or light tea.
3. Raise the lower limbs
During a gout attack, there is usually edema in the painful area. Therefore, the principle of "water flows downwards" can be used to raise the lower limbs to reduce edema. . For example, put a pillow under your feet when sleeping and shorten the time you stand when getting out of bed.
4. Don’t torture yourself with shoes
When a gout attack occurs, the joints are painful and swollen. Wearing another pair of shoes will make things worse. If some patients have to move around, they must wear a pair of loose shoes. In addition, wearing socks is also important. If the weather is cold, you can also wear socks, but the socks should not be too tight.
5. Diversion of attention
Some friends lie still when gout attacks. Everyone knows this pain. But if you lie still in bed and only think about joint pain, and you are completely immersed in it, the pain will be obvious. So when gout attacks, try to divert your attention, watch movies, talk more, and divert your attention.
6. Diet control
To control diet, you need to do two things. One is to abstain from alcohol, and the other is to reduce the intake of high purine foods. Alcohol and high purine intake will increase uric acid and affect the control of gout.
3. Dietary recommendations for gout patients
1. Pay attention to purines in the diet
To prevent another gout attack, you must first control your diet and avoid eating A large number of high-purine foods, such as animal offal, seafood, thick broth, fish roe, etc.
2. Pay attention to the intake of fruits
The intake of fruits should be controlled at 200~400g per day. You should avoid ingesting a large amount of fruits with high fructose content at one time. You can choose fruits containing Fruits with low sugar content: strawberries, star fruits, peaches, cherries, etc.
3. Eat less fat
Excessive fat intake will inhibit the excretion of uric acid. It should be controlled within 50 grams per day, mainly vegetable oil (edible oil should be controlled at 25 grams per day) or so) and eat less animal fat. Remove fat and skin from poultry before cooking, and filter out the oil after cooking. When cooking, try not to use deep-frying, deep-frying, or deep-frying, and use more cooking methods that use less oil, such as steaming, boiling, and stewing.
4. Eat limited amounts of soy products
The purine content of beans and their products also varies. Soybeans, black beans, dried tofu, etc. have relatively high purine content; while mung bean sprouts, soy milk, etc. do not have high purine content. As long as it is not in the acute attack period and is limited to a certain amount, for example: 1 cup of soy milk or 1 piece of tofu per day, there will be no adverse effects.
Early symptoms of gout: If blood uric acid continues to increase, gout will suddenly attack and gouty arthritis will break out. Gout often attacks suddenly, and the affected area hurts like a knife or burning, and is red, swollen, high-heat, and painful, and cannot be touched. Some patients may have joint swelling and hydrops, and yellow turbid liquid will appear when the fluid is extracted. Analgesics can be used when gout attacks. Traditional Chinese medicine is safe. The pain usually subsides in about 30 minutes. The body feels strong in 3-5 days and the uric acid level is stable. (Colchicine can also be taken for anti-inflammation, but the side effects are obvious, diarrhea is common, and it is harmful to the kidneys. It is often reported that colchicine causes irreversible damage to the kidneys).
4. Early symptoms of gout
1: No obvious symptoms. Gout will occur in older patients. Of course, there are no special symptoms at the beginning. It doesn't last long when it first appears. It mainly involves short-term joint pain. However, patients with such short-term symptoms don't pay much attention to it, so they may not feel it for a year and a half after it appears.
Two: Acute arthritis begins to attack. As time goes by, the patient's gout will begin to cause obvious pain. However, as long as it is also reflected in the joints of the patient's lower limbs, the thumb and index finger will begin to feel uncomfortable in many places, and the time of joint attack will also begin to change. In this way, the patient will have obvious perception of the condition and will be unable to live a normal life for a long time.
Three: Intermission period. If patients have long-term gout, or have persistent gout, then many patients need to start paying attention. Gout requires relief and treatment, and it cannot be fully recovered during this period. The sequelae are also very disturbing. Worrying, so it will occur during the intermittent period of the attack, and it will start to relapse after the intermittent period.
Four: Tophi appears. With the emergence and precipitation of urate, patients will begin to develop cartilage. As a result, many patients will develop tophi in their toes and joints, and even in the surface cortex of their fingers. Once the body is When uric acid increases, the onset period of many patients will continue to rise and will not disappear, always affecting the patients' lives.
Warm reminder: Nowadays, when living standards are rising in a straight line, many patients with gout disease have begun to exist, but they cannot predict that they have the disease. Gout disease is difficult to detect and will spread. There may be no symptoms at first, then there may be an attack, and then it will start again. Therefore, we must pay attention to preventing gout and treat it in time, otherwise the joints will suffer from long-term pain.