Uric acid is often experienced by many people today. In fact, people are still relatively young, much too often lost in this disease. In fact, what this disease? What are the symptoms, causes and solutions? Just as food has to be a taboo? Here we will talk.
The definition of uric acid is a metabolic waste from the food product purines. There is also a byproduct of the breakdown of red blood cells in blood.
Purine is a substance in foods that come from living organisms found. In other words, in the living body by the presence of the purine and because they eat the living, so the passage of substances purine in the body. A variety of fruits and vegetables also contain purines. Purines also the result of the destruction of body cells that are normally produced or due to certain diseases.
Normally, uric acid in the body through the feces (stool) and urine discharged, but because the kidneys cannot eliminate uric acid, increased levels of the organization performs. Can raise another matter, the uric acid level, is that we consume too many foods that contain large amounts of purines. In addition to excess uric acid accumulates in the joints, pain or swelling.
Patients with gout after appropriate treatment can be so treated that the uric acid in the body to be normal again. But because the body is the potential accumulation of uric acid, it is recommended that the food intake to control foods to avoid include large amounts of purines.
The Symptoms of Uric Acid
- Tingling and stinging
- Pain, especially at night or early morning awakening
- Pain in the affected joints of uric acid visible swelling, redness, heat, and ask me, night and morning.
Overcoming the solution of uric acid
- Taking the medication until the uric acid levels return to normal. Normal values are 2.4 to 6 for women and 3.0 to 7 men.
- The control of food consumed.
- Drink plenty of water. With plenty of drinking water, to eliminate the purines in the body.
Avoid foods (containing purines lot)
- Fittings such as intestines, liver, kidney, spleen, tripe, intestines, lungs and brain.
- Seafood such as prawns, mussels, squid and crabs.
- Preserves, such as corned beef and sardines.
- Meat, eggs, broth or sauce is thickened.
- Legumes such as soybeans (including processed products such as soy milk), peanuts, green beans, bean sprouts, fried potatoes.
- Leafy vegetables like spinach, kale, cassava leaves, asparagus, cauliflower, green beans.
- Fruits such as durian, avocado, pineapple, coconut water.
- Food and beverages that contain alcohol such as beer, whiskey, wine, wine, film and palm oil.
