Tag: Gout and Hyperuricemia

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These eight tests are especially important for gout patients

Gout patients often have such questions: I have had gout for some years. When I don’t go to the hospital to see a doctor, I also came here to take painkillers myself. How can the doctor prescribe so many examinations for me as soon as I go to the hospital? Today’s article is to solve everyone’s doubts and let patients know what tests doctors will do when evaluating gout. 1. Detection of serum uric acid In previous articles, we mentioned many times that high uric acid is the basic condition for causing gout attacks, so the determination of blood uric acid is very important for the diagnosis and evaluation of gout and the evaluation of the therapeutic effect of lowering Read More …

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Ask your doctor questions about high uric acid

With the improvement of living standards, more and more people find that they have high uric acid. Conservative estimates show that at present there are about 120 million hyperuricemia patients in our country, accounting for about 10% of the total population. The high incidence age is middle-aged and elderly men and postmenopausal women. However, in recent years, the trend of rising uric acid among young people is also increasing. Many people have many questions about high uric acid. Therefore, Dr. Clove specially invited Dr. Liu Lei from the Department of Rheumatology of Huashan Hospital Affiliated to Fudan University to answer everyone’s doubts. At present, the activity is over. Thank you for your active participation. The following is a wonderful question Read More …

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Uric acid is high, gout, will you say goodbye to seafood?

People suffering from gout or elevated uric acid often hear doctors say: “You can’t eat seafood in the future”. This is really a bolt from the blue for the eaters. Have you ever felt that your life is bleak from now on? However, things are not so absolute. Today we will have a good talk about seafood and gout. Before that, review the relationship between uric acid rise and diet with Dr. Clove. Causes of Uric Acid Elevation The core link of gout and hyperuricemia is the increase of uric acid level in the body. The reasons are nothing more than the following two points: Excessive production of uric acid and reduced excretion of uric acid Uric acid is the Read More …

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Uric acid is high, do you want to take medicine?

Rheumatologists or endocrinologists often meet patients who come to consult with physical examination reports in outpatient clinics, and a large part of this is due to the increase of uric acid in blood biochemical indexes. Some patients may ask: Doctor, my uric acid is high, is it gout? Do you want to take medicine? Some people will ask: Doctor, my uric acid has always been high, but I have never had arthralgia. Do you want to treat it? Then, this article will introduce to you the relationship between hyperuricemia and gout, and whether hyperuricemia should be treated or not. Is what hyperuricemia? Excessive production of uric acid in the body or decreased uric acid excretion function in the kidney may Read More …

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Colchicine has such a big side effect, can you still eat it?

I believe that the vast majority of gout patients are familiar with colchicine, and both the doctor’s advice and the [experience] of other patients around them may mention this very important drug in gout treatment. In the eyes of many [old patients], colchicine has an immediate analgesic effect, but it always feels that the side effects are too great and there will be severe gastrointestinal reactions such as diarrhea and vomiting after taking it.

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A New Gout Drug-[Feibuxostat] or [Feibuxotan]?

Gout, as an ancient chronic disease, has been recorded as early as more than 2000 BC, and many dignitaries have suffered from gout in history. Although people have realized that gout has been a disease for a long time and are constantly studying treatment methods, there are still few [weapons] available at present.

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Does gout knot save energy and eliminate it?

Not all tophus (nodules) can be dissolved. Only when the formation time is short, the urate deposited in it can freely exchange with the components in the blood and is still in the soluble period. Gout nodules generally refer to the deposition of subcutaneous uric acid crystals. Tout stones also include renal uric acid stones. The two statements are often interused and both refer to the deposition of uric acid crystals. However, once gout nodules exist for a long time and fibrosis and calcification occur inside, there is no way to dissolve them through drugs and they can only be treated by surgery, but not all gout nodules are suitable for surgery. At the beginning of gout, only one joint Read More …