Gout now it has become a disease that is often experienced by people aged 30 years and older. But do not be mistaken this disease is a mild disease, you know, because if again inflamed really can not imagine the pain that will be felt by the sufferer. Well, at this conference the Information Center will try to explain four things about gout medication, causes, symptoms and abstinence gout sufferers are expected to provide many benefits to the patients and those who want to prevent it.
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Here are the symptoms of gout:
- Joint pain, aching, shooting pain, tingling and even reddish swollen (inflamed)
- Usually the joints feel pain during the morning (just woken up) or night.
- Feels pain in the joints occur repeatedly.
- The attacked usually toe joints, fingers, knees, ankles, wrists and elbows.
- In the event of severe cases, joints ached when to move.
To know more definitely, the patient should immediately take the examination in the laboratory. For normal uric acid levels in men ranges from 3.5 to 7 mg / dl and in women from 2.6 to 6 mg / dl.
Most people with gout also have other diseases such as hypertension (high blood pressure), diabetes or kidney disease as well. But the factor of obesity (obesity) is also often seen in people with gout. If gout is not treated immediately it can develop into kidney stones and can ultimately lead to kidney failure gout sufferers are.
The cause of gout:
- Consumption of substances that contain purine excessively.
- Purine substances in large quantities in the body, then through metabolism turns into uric acid.
- An increase in uric acid levels in the body, so that the kidneys are not able to get rid of excess uric acid.
- The amount of excess uric acid crystals accumulate in the joints.
- As a result of our joint pain, swollen, inflamed, hot and stiff.
In the event of severe cases, gout sufferers can not walk due to the joints is painful at all if it moves. Bone around the joints may also be porous and experience of bone calcification.
Taboo for gout sufferers:
- Offal: kidney, spleen, tripe, intestines, liver, lungs and brain.
- Seafood: shrimp, squid, cuttlefish, clams, mussels, oysters, crabs, anchovies, sardines.
- Extracts like shredded meat and jerky.
- Food that has been canned (example: corned beef, sardines).
- Mutton, beef, horse meat.
- Ducks, geese and turkeys.
- Legumes: soybeans (including tempeh, tauco, oncom, soy milk), peanuts, green beans, bean sprouts, melinjo, chips.
- Vegetables: cauliflower, spinach, asparagus, beans, mushroom, cassava leaves, papaya leaves, kale.
- Cheese, eggs, cream, ice cream, broth or gravy is thick.
- Certain fruits such as durian, pineapple and coconut water.
- Foods that are fried or cooked using bersantan or margarine / butter.
- Foods rich in protein and fat.
In addition to some restrictions above, patients with gout should always drink plenty of water especially for those who have kidney stones. By drinking lots of water will greatly help the kidneys to excrete uric acid crystals from the body through urine.
Health advice for gout sufferers:
- Consumption of foods containing high potassium such as potatoes, yogurt and bananas
- Consumption of fruit that contains vitamin C, such as oranges, papaya and strawberry
- Examples of fruit and vegetables to treat gout: dragon fruit, starfruit, ginger, pumpkin, mustard greens, cabbage, lemongrass and tomato
- Increase consumption of complex carbohydrates such as rice, cassava, bread and potatoes
- Reduce consumption of simple carbohydrates such as type of fructose sugar, candy, cotton candy, cotton candy and syrup
- Do not take aspirin
- Do not work too hard / fatigue
- In people who are overweight (obesity), usually uric acid levels quickly rose but spending a little bit, then you should lose weight with exercise enough
- Adjust energy intake with the body's needs, based on height and weight.
