Uric acid is the index reviews gout?

If the past two decades, increased uric acid status in Vietnam is estimated at only 1%-2% of the population is now up to 9% (approximately 8 million inhabitants). High levels of uric acid affects many organs in the body such as the heart, blood vessels, eyes, etc., but the most common is gout-a disease associated with reactive arthritis due to increased uric acid.

Photo illustration: blood uric acid

Gout is caused by metabolic disorder the purines, which main feature is the increase in blood uric acid. Uric acid is a waste formed by the process of purine metabolism in the cells of the body. When uric acid is saturated in addition to translation cell, will result in deposition of monosodium urate crystals crystals in the tissues. Depending on the micro-crystals of urate crystals are accumulated in tissues where the disease manifested by one or more of the clinical symptoms such as arthritis, chronic or acute, often referred to as arthritis due to gout.

A question often was patients who wonder if increased blood creatinine is called with gout? Application of diagnostic standards of Bennett and Wood 1968, a person is diagnosed with gout when: either find Crystal urate crystals in the joints or tophi counties; or at least two of the following criteria: one is a history of, or currently has at least two painful swelling of the joints with the sudden onset of swelling, intense pain, and from completely within two weeks; the two are a history or present have a swollen joint pain tennis toe with properties such as above; three seed is tophi; the four are responding well to the colchicin (reduce inflammation, reduce pain within 48 h) in a history or current.

So, if the patient merely has increased the concentration of uric acid in blood is not able to conclude investigations of sick gut. However, the object of this patient is in danger of leading to gout disease and become chronic. So should soon have a standby mode and on nutrition, living to avoid lead to gout disease with many complications.

Since the known phenomenon of increased uric acid blood, patients should make diet protein diet, eat seafood, organ meat, covered with red; abstinence from drinking beer and drink plenty of water every day, especially the mineral water has alkalinity will contribute to removing excess uric acid from the body, contributing to lower uric acid. Besides can also use some type of functional foods with herbal roots to increase uric acid is eliminated, resulting in uric acid levels have returned to normal thresholds.