Beer plus seafood - increases the uric acid content in the human blood, making it easy to get gout.
Before the 1980s, gout was still a rare disease, and many doctors only learned about it in school. In the past decade or so, with the improvement of living standards, people have become aware of the high incidence of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and diabetes, but there is still a lack of sufficient understanding of gout, a lifestyle disease. In hospital outpatient clinics, patients often go to the orthopedics or rheumatology department for sudden joint pain. In fact, it is a gout attack.
Gout "dislikes the poor and loves the rich". It is a disease of wealth with a long history and is closely related to people's living standards. People from wealthy aristocrats and wealthy people are prone to gout. As early as 5 BC There are records of this in centuries. When people mainly eat whole grains and work for a living all day long, the incidence of gout is generally very low. With the improvement of living standards, the proportion of various high-protein, high-fat, and high-calorie foods in the diet has gradually increased, making the incidence of gout, which was previously rare, increasing day by day and becoming a common disease that endangers people's health.
Gout patients develop the disease due to long-term purine metabolism disorders. At first, they only experience reduced uric acid excretion and increased blood uric acid. If not controlled in time, it will cause joint and kidney tissue damage. The toe joints are most commonly affected. Followed by joints such as ankles and fingers, but rarely causes damage to large joints. When the disease occurs, the joints will suddenly become red and swollen and cause severe pain. Generally speaking, joint pain will subside automatically after a few days, but the condition will reoccur later. Long-term uric acid crystal deposition can cause kidney stones, kidney damage, and even kidney failure.
In the cold winter, people’s outdoor activities decrease, and they are accustomed to winter nutrition. Boiling mutton, seafood, soup, and big fish and meat have become commonplace on the dining table, along with drinking, smoking, and not eating. People love to be active, so winter is the season when gout is most common. For some people, the disease may occur all year round. Gout is a "patent" for adult men. According to statistics, more than 90% of gout cases are men. More than 20% of men over 30 years old have the problem of excessive uric acid. There are only a few female patients, and most of them occur in After menopause.
It can be seen that gout is a disease that is “different between men and women”. As for why gout is particularly difficult for men, some scholars have analyzed that estrogen in women may have a certain protective effect, but it is mainly related to men's living habits. Most of the social activities are done by men. Most men suffering from gout are addicted to smoking and drinking. They are "carnivores" and rarely eat vegetables or exercise. They are generally overweight or severely obese. They have many "bad habits" and have no estrogen protection. It is not surprising that diseases of wealth such as gout are more common.
Most gout patients are young and middle-aged, and most of them are accompanied by other lifestyle diseases, such as obesity, hypertension, diabetes, etc. For such a disease of wealth, the prevention and treatment methods are very simple. Diet control, increased exercise, and changing "bad habits" in daily life will get twice the result with half the effort. Thiazide diuretics may cause gout. Many patients with high blood pressure are now taking compound antihypertensive drugs that contain this ingredient, so be careful.
For some foods rich in purine, such as animal offal, shellfish, meat soup, meat marinade, beer, tea, coffee, as well as sardines, conger eels, shrimps, crabs, Oysters, scallops, fish skin, lentils, dried seaweed, shiitake mushrooms, broccoli flowers, spinach, excessive meat or dried beans, etc. should be controlled. Drinking more water at ordinary times can also help the excretion of uric acid. During an acute attack of gout, you can take colchicine or some analgesics to control it.