People with high uric acid gout must not commit it!

Mistake: Don't take high uric acid and gout seriously.

Some friends found that uric acid was high during physical examination or accidental examination. At this time, there may be no abnormalities such as joint pain, so I thought, "It doesn't hurt anyway, what's there to be afraid of?" In fact, this view is very dangerous.

High uric acid is the same as hypertension and diabetes. If it is not well controlled in the short term, the body may not have obvious symptoms. But in the long run, the harm caused by high uric acid will gradually emerge with the accumulation of time.

Everyone is most familiar with gout attacks and joint pain, which should be fatal in the eyes of many gout patients. But in the eyes of doctors, joint pain is still a trivial matter. More terrible than pain is joint deformity, kidney damage and even renal failure caused by long-term high uric acid.

It is usually very passive to wait until tophi or kidney damage has formed before considering treatment. Rheumatoid stones are too large to be surgically removed, and even if they are removed, joint deformation is difficult to recover. If renal failure occurs, dialysis and other treatments should be considered.

Mistake 2: only check once, and don't pay attention to reexamination.

Friends with high uric acid gout need to check blood uric acid, serum creatinine, urea nitrogen, liver function, kidney B-ultrasound and so on.

Whether you have started taking drugs to reduce uric acid, or uric acid is high but does not meet the drug standards, you need to check blood uric acid and other indicators regularly.

When taking drugs to reduce uric acid, check blood uric acid every 3~5 weeks, check blood creatinine, urea nitrogen, liver function, etc. It depends on the specific situation. Through these tests, doctors know:

Are the current drugs effective? Do you need to increase or decrease the dosage or switch to other drugs?

Is the drug harmful to liver and kidney? Do you need to stop taking medicine and change medicine in time?

For friends who do not meet the medication standards, it is also necessary to check blood uric acid regularly. Only in this way can we find the changes of the disease in time and reduce the harm caused by the disease to the body.

Mistake 3: Don't take medicine as long as gout doesn't break out.

In the eyes of many gout patients, gout is only joint pain. Take some painkillers when it hurts, and ignore them when it doesn't. This is a typical "palliative" behavior.

The fundamental problem of gout is high uric acid. Only by reducing uric acid can we reduce the number of gout attacks and reduce the harm of high uric acid to the body. It is generally recommended that serum uric acid be reduced to 360mol/L without tophus. With toffee, it will be reduced to 300 mol/L.

Some friends, who don't take medicine according to the doctor's advice, think that "the medicine hurts", use uric acid-lowering drugs as painkillers, and take some uric acid-lowering drugs when it hurts. Results The pain did not stop and uric acid did not decrease.

Mistake 4: only take medicine, not adjust lifestyle.

Before the reform and opening up, few people suffered from gout, which is also called "imperial disease" and "rich disease".

With the improvement of economic level, the life of "going out with a car and eating with meat" is becoming more and more common, which is followed by the high incidence of metabolic diseases such as gout and diabetes.

To some extent, gout is a "habitual disease". Gout is closely related to high purine, high fat food intake, lack of exercise and great stress in life and work.

Therefore, the treatment of gout, lifestyle adjustment and drug treatment are indispensable. Reducing uric acid level through uric acid lowering drugs can slow down or prevent the harm of high uric acid to the body, thus providing good recovery conditions for the body. Of course, if you don't pay attention to adjusting your lifestyle during this period, your body will not recover easily.

Mistake 5: Buy all kinds of "gout drugs"

With the current medical level, gout is incurable. However, some businessmen even shouted the slogan "only cure gout, cure disease with medicine". I want to hire a layman to solve a disease that medical experts all over the world can't overcome. If you think deeply, you will know the purpose behind it. You just want to empty everyone's pockets.

In addition to beware of "magic medicine", we should also be careful not to buy drugs such as "Indian version of febuxostat" and "Japanese version of febuxostat". Although these drugs may be effective, there is no guarantee of their safety. What you eat in your mouth is no better than what you wear on your body. The first thing you need to ensure is safety.

In addition, medication should be supervised and guided by doctors to avoid harm caused by improper medication.