Can I eat it during the acute stage of gout?
Kiwi fruit cannot lower uric acid, but only plays a supporting role. If you have high uric acid, you can eat a small amount of kiwi fruit. Kiwi fruit mainly contains a large amount of vitamin C, which is beneficial to the body's survival and metabolism. This is also beneficial to the metabolism of uric acid. However, it is not recommended to eat too much kiwi fruit. Kiwi fruit also has a certain amount of calories.
High uric acid in gout patients is due to high purine levels in the body. Kiwi fruit is rich in vitamin C, which can promote the metabolism of purine in the body and is helpful to the recovery of gout patients. However, kiwi fruit cannot directly reduce the amount of purine in the body. For uric acid, drug treatment is still needed to reduce uric acid.
Kiwi fruit is a low-purine food. The purine content per 100 grams of kiwi fruit does not exceed 25 mg. The purine content is low. Eating kiwi fruit will not have a significant impact on human body uric acid levels. It will not induce hyperuricemia and cause gout. Kiwi fruit is rich in vitamin C and can be eaten by gout patients.
After a gout attack, there are often obvious pain symptoms in the joints, which affects daily life. In this case, NSAIDs may be used appropriately. The main function of this drug is anti-inflammatory and analgesic, which can relieve the pain symptoms caused by gout. Uric acid-lowering drugs The drugs used to treat gout are mainly drugs that promote uric acid synthesis, including drugs that inhibit uric acid synthesis. Allopurinol tablets are the main drug that inhibits uric acid synthesis, and probenecid is the main drug that promotes uric acid excretion. Proper use of these drugs can reduce the content of uric acid in the blood and promote the excretion of uric acid, which is helpful in the treatment of gout.
The prognosis of gout mainly depends on the severity of gout and whether there are complications. Intervention for primary gout can reduce the incidence and blood uric acid levels. However, those with more chronic attacks, or those with renal and vascular disease, have a poorer prognosis.
Gout has a significant impact on joints, easily causing joint damage and deformation, making walking difficult and affecting quality of life. In addition, it can also affect internal organs. For example, an increase in uric acid can affect kidney function. In severe cases, uremia may result, and in the later stages the patient may require long-term hemodialysis or kidney transplantation.
It is recommended that gout patients drink more water, more than 2000 ml of water per day, and manage their diet well.