Kidney is the organ that excretes urine, and uric acid is dissolved in urine. The more urine the patient excretes, the more uric acid will be excreted from the body. If you want to urinate more, what should you do? The answer is to drink more water.
Ensure adequate urine volume
Gout patients should pay special attention to the intake of sufficient water. If your water intake is insufficient, the urine volume will decrease and the concentration of dissolved uric acid in urine will increase, which is easy to form urinary calculi in the urinary tract.
As long as your renal function and cardiac function level are normal, after you absorb enough water, the urine volume will also increase, the urine will become lighter, uric acid will easily dissolve in it and be discharged out of the body with the urine, which is not easy to form crystals, and can effectively prevent urinary calculi and renal dysfunction.
In addition, after drinking enough water, the blood viscosity can also be reduced, which has certain benefits for preventing gout complications such as cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.
The daily urination volume of normal people is about 1 000 ~ 2 000 ml, with an average of about 1 500 ml.
For gout patients, due to the abundant uric acid [inventory] in the body, under the same renal function conditions, in order to excrete more uric acid than normal people, we must excrete more urine than normal people. Generally speaking, we hope that gout patients can urinate more than 2 liters per day.
For this reason, gout patients should be active in drinking water every day to ensure that the amount of drinking water is more than 2 liters.
In this way, with the water in our three meals a day, our body can achieve [import and export balance] in water.
Can you drink water?
Although drinking water is extremely simple, there are still many [small skills] to pay attention to.
With the improvement of living standards, people have become more and more accustomed to buying a bottle of drink in the store when they are thirsty. There are a wide variety of drinks in the store, but not every one is suitable for gout patients.
If gout patients gulp down on cool drinks such as beer and fruit juice, although you have met the daily drinking standard, unfortunately, the blood uric acid level in your body is higher.
What kind of water do you drink?
The water most suitable for gout patients should have two characteristics:
- Alkalinity: It helps to alkalize urine. When the pH value of the patient’s urine increases, the solubility of uric acid also increases, which is helpful for the excretion of uric acid in the body. Low calorie content: If the water consumed by gout patients contains a large amount of energy substances such as sugar, the one-day diet plan will fall through unconsciously.
Soda water is an ideal choice for gout patients. Soda water contains sodium bicarbonate, which is alkaline because the water contains dissociated bicarbonate ions, helping gout patients to alkalize urine and expel uric acid.
Drinking soda water is actually very popular in western countries. In recent years, the number of Chinese who have realized the benefits of soda water has gradually increased, and the variety of soda water drinks on the market has also increased.
If friends of gout patients find it difficult to accept the taste of soda water, in fact, plain boiled water and light tea are also good choices for you to replenish water.
Drink water in what?
Many people drink water only when they are thirsty, which is not good for gout patients.
If gout patients wait until thirst is obvious before drinking water, the body is actually in a state of water shortage, and uric acid in a concentrated state in the body has begun to sneak around and secretly break down, then drinking water is not ideal for promoting uric acid excretion.
Therefore, in terms of drinking water, gout patients must learn to [take the initiative] and may as well bring a kettle with them and drink a few saliva in their spare time.
In addition, it should also be noted that you should not drink a lot of water before and after eating, which will dilute digestive juice and gastric acid, affect our appetite and hinder food digestion.
The best time to drink water is between meals, in the morning and at night.
We sleep about one-third of the day every day. In order to prevent urine concentration during this long period of time, gout patients can drink water properly before going to bed.