As the saying goes: "Toothache is not a disease, but it can kill people". This is used to describe a person's toothache, but there is another kind of pain in life that is not weaker than toothache, and that is gout.
For patients, gout is like a "thief", fleeing everywhere, starting with the big toe joint, followed by the ankle, knee, hand, wrist and other joints. Usually gout only affects one joint at a time, but it is easy to "run around", and the next attack is likely to occur in other joints. When gout attacks, pain is mostly in the lower extremities, and the toes have the highest proportion. Among them, pain at the base of the toes accounts for 70%. After the attack, patients are usually unbearable.
Since gout usually occurs in the feet, can gout patients usually soak their feet in and ?
For this issue, I believe that many gout patients are more concerned. As for whether you can soak your feet or not, it depends on the situation. For patients in remission, they can soak their feet in hot water, which can relax muscles and blood, promote blood circulation, reduce uric acid deposition, and relieve pain. In addition, local heating is also conducive to the dissipation of tiny urate crystals , which is good for joints.
However, for patients with acute gout attacks, it is absolutely impossible to soak their feet in hot water. Because the joints are inflamed at this time, the symptoms of redness, swelling, heat, and pain are obvious. If you soak your feet in hot water, it is tantamount to adding fuel to the fire. The stimulated joints will swell and hurt more severely.
In addition, gout patients must pay attention to these two points when soaking their feet:
1. The water temperature should not be overheated when soaking the feet
Especially for the middle-aged and the elderly, the secretion of sebaceous glands decreases, the skin is relatively fragile, and the water temperature is too high to damage the skin It will be relatively large, which can easily lead to skin damage and infection.
2. After soaking the feet, be sure to dry them in time.
Do not wait for the feet to dry naturally after soaking. Especially in winter, the temperature of is low. After soaking the feet, the pores on the feet are open, and there is water on the feet. In the case of wind, it is easy to make the joints cold, and it may also cause an acute attack of gout.
Gout is clinically regarded as a life-long disease, and the development of the disease can be divided into four stages
First, asymptomatic periods
In addition to the increase of blood and urine acid, there is no arthritis, tophi or Uric acid stones and other symptoms. This asymptomatic but persistently elevated uric acid condition may persist throughout life, but may also develop into acute gout attacks or kidney stones.
Second, acute arthritis
In the early stage of the disease, a single joint is damaged, about half of which occur at the metacarpal joints. Gout pain is common in the toes, insteps, ankles, heels, knees, wrists, fingers, elbows, etc. Other parts also occur, but they are not common.
3. Tophi and Chronic Arthritis stage
Tophi is a characteristic clinical manifestation of gout, a large amount of tophi deposited in joints can cause joint bone destruction , tissue around the joint fibrosis, secondary regression Sexual changes, etc. It can be manifested as persistent joint swelling and pain, pressing pain, deformity and joint dysfunction.
Fourth, the stage of renal disease
is mainly manifested as gouty nephropathy and uric acid nephrolithiasis, the former manifests as decreased uric acid concentration, increased urination, low molecular weight proteinuria, leukocyte urine , etc.; Urinary tract, causing hematuria, pyelonephritis, etc.
If gout develops for a long time without effective treatment or neglected control, it will lead to further development of the disease, reduce the quality of life, and even affect the life span.
So, what should you do to relieve gout?
1、Timely Hydration
2/3 of the uric acid in the human body is excreted by the kidneys with the urine. Through timely hydration, the urine output can be increased, thereby accelerating the metabolism of uric acid. It is recommended that the daily hydration of gout patients should be more than 2000 ml. After exercise, you should also pay attention to water supplementation, because muscles will accumulate a lot of lactic acid, and lactic acid will hinder the normal excretion of uric acid and cause the increase of uric acid in the body. Therefore, rest and water supplementation during exercise can help relieve muscle fatigue and promote urination.
2, diet control
Most of the purines in food will be converted into uric acid, which is not absorbed by the human body, so the impact of diet on uric acid levels is obvious. In the daily diet, it is recommended to eat more root vegetables and foods with low purine and content, and eat less animal liver and seafood ingredients.
3, exercise
Exercise helps reduce body fat content, increase muscle tissue content, and improve metabolism. It is advisable for gout patients to sweat slightly, because in the process of perspiration, some uric acid will also be excreted with sweat. , thereby helping to prevent the recurrence of gout. @toutiaohealth
