The 25-year-old young boss is in a wheelchair due to gout. If he does these 4 things, the gout may stop.

The crosstalk artist Guo Degang is a familiar name to everyone. Recently, with the broadcast of the TV series "Zui Xu", Guo Degang's son Guo Qilin has also begun to attract public attention. However, the reason why Guo Qilin has attracted public attention during this period is more about Guo Qilin's health problems.

Guo Qilin is sitting in a wheelchair. He is only 25 years old. It is supposed that a person is at his strongest, but Guo Qilin is sitting in a wheelchair. The reason is gout.

Gout has frequently struck young people in recent years. It is not surprising that young people in their 20s suffer from gout. Why does gout strike young people? What characteristics of young people make them more susceptible to gout? How to prevent gout?

Is gout caused by diet?

Many people often drink alcohol for a long time and eat seafood frequently before gout attacks, so gout is also considered to be a problem caused by eating. In fact, although gout is related to improper diet, it is not a problem caused by eating.

Gout is a metabolic disease caused by purine metabolism disorder or uric acid excretion disorder in the body. If too much purine cannot be excreted in time, urate crystals will form in the body. If these urate crystals are deposited in the joints, it will cause joint pain. If they are deposited in the renal tubules, it will cause kidney stones.

The root cause of gout attacks is a problem with the metabolism of uric acid, either excessive uric acid production or reduced uric acid excretion. Of these two reasons, uric acid excretion is the main cause for most gout patients.

If you want to reduce the onset of gout, you must control the source and open the flow, control the amount of uric acid produced at the source while increasing the excretion of uric acid. Controlling the source means reducing the intake of high-purine foods, while opening the flow means finding ways to increase the excretion of uric acid.

1. Eat less high-purine foods

According to the purine content table, choose the food that suits you. Food is divided into three levels, namely high-purine food, medium-purine food and low-purine food. During the acute attack of gout, only low-purine food can be eaten. During the remission period of gout, low-purine food can be eaten, and medium-purine food can be eaten appropriately. As for high-purine food, it is on the dietary blacklist and is strictly prohibited to be eaten.

Many gout patients often cannot control their appetite when faced with delicious food, which causes gout to recur. Wang Han, a famous host of Hunan Satellite TV, is also a gout patient. Because he likes to eat seafood, he sometimes cannot control his appetite and causes gout to recur. Among seafood foods, only sea cucumbers and jellyfish are low-purine foods. Other seafood should be eaten with extreme caution.

2. Don’t drink alcohol

Although people often say that "wine is the essence of grain, the more you drink, the younger you are", for gout patients, no matter how good the wine is, they cannot drink it. Although some wines contain relatively low purine, and even belong to the category of low-purine foods, for gout patients, these wines cannot be touched. For example, the purine content in beer is very low, and it also belongs to the category of low-purine foods, but the guanine contained in beer is more easily converted into blood uric acid, not to mention that beer also contains alcohol.

It is an indisputable fact that any kind of alcohol contains a certain amount of alcohol. The alcohol in alcohol will increase blood lactate after entering the human body, produce uric acid during decomposition, and inhibit the excretion of uric acid by the renal tubules. These factors combined will cause gout.

3. Say no to sweet drinks

Many young people suffer from gout, and one of the reasons is related to beverages. Although we often emphasize that we should drink more water and less beverages, many young people think that they are in good health and still choose to do as they please. Drinking sweet drinks is also one of the eating habits of young people. Although sweet drinks are particularly refreshing to drink, little do they know that they are paying a price for their body.

Sugar is often added to sweet drinks during the production process, and in recent years, fructose corn syrup has been used more and more in beverages. The main component of fructose corn syrup is fructose, which is considered healthy sugar by many people, but in fact, excessive intake of fructose is no less harmful than sucrose. Fructose produces uric acid during metabolism and affects the excretion of uric acid by the kidneys. Frequent consumption of sweet drinks will increase the risk of gout. Even freshly squeezed fruit juice is not a healthy drink.

4. Drink plenty of water

Drink more water, this may be an advice we often hear, and family members may also remind us to drink more water every day. Uric acid is mainly excreted through urine, and drinking more water can increase the excretion of urine, and also increase the excretion of uric acid. Ordinary people need to drink 1500~1700 ml of water every day, while gout patients need to drink at least 2000 ml of water every day.

Drinking water can promote the excretion of uric acid, and the importance of alkalinizing urine cannot be ignored. When the pH value of urine increases, the solubility of uric acid also increases, and the excretion of uric acid also increases. Soda water contains sodium bicarbonate, which is alkaline because it contains dissociated bicarbonate ions, which helps gout patients alkalize their urine and excrete uric acid.

Gout is a lifelong disease. Once you have gout, it may accompany you for life. For gout patients, controlling uric acid levels can not only reduce the frequency of gout attacks, but also reduce the risk of complications such as hypertension, diabetes, coronary heart disease, stroke and kidney disease.