The onset of gout often occurs in the middle of the night, which often manifests as obvious pain in the patient's fingers, toes, or feet, and the painful areas will become red, swollen, and fever, and the pain points will be very sensitive;
After gout occurs, it will directly lead to certain restrictions on the body's joint movement, and even after the pain is relieved, the skin surface will also appear itchy and fall off, which directly affects work and rest time and health.
What should I do if I feel pain so unbearable?
1. Relieve
When gout occurs, the painful area is often red, swollen and feverish. When encountering this, you can appropriately use some cold compresses to reduce the pain.
Specific method: wrap the ice cubes in gauze, and then stay on the painful area for a while, causing the blood vessels to contract, prevent excessive swelling, and can also relieve pain to a certain extent. If there is no ice at home, you can also use a towel to soak it in cold water and apply it to the area, which can also play the same role.
2. Use painkillers rationally
When the body has gout attacks, severe pain often occurs. In severe cases, it is impossible to walk normally. Therefore, it is recommended to prepare some painkillers in daily life and try to place them anywhere you can take.
However, it is worth noting that it is not recommended to take a lot of painkillers for a long time, otherwise, although it reduces the pain, it will cause damage to the liver and kidneys, and in severe cases, it will also lead to hepatitis and renal failure.
3. Elevate the lower limbs
Many patients with gout often experience lower limb edema. Even if they are slightly cold wind in life, they will experience unbearable pain;
People with gout can raise their lower limbs in daily life and place a protective cover to prevent collisions in the affected area. This will allow blood in the lower limbs to flow to the heart and relieve the pain caused by edema.
4. Find ways to excrete uric acid in the body
People with gout should not often eat some foods with high purine content, such as seafood, alcohol, animal offal, pickled food, and some foods with high calories and high fat;
Otherwise, a large amount of uric acid will be produced in the body. It is recommended to eat more foods that can assist in eliminating uric acid, and ensure that at least 2,500 milliliters of water should be consumed every day so that acidic substances can be excreted from the body with urine.
In addition, it is recommended that you can also choose some drugs that can always form uric acid and drugs that can promote uric acid excretion under the advice of the doctor. High uric acid is one of the most important factors that cause gout; therefore, if you want to effectively alkalize urine, you must eat more alkaline foods such as green leafy vegetables in daily life to make the acid and alkalinity of uric acid worth neutralizing.
If uric acid is not controlled properly, it will cause direct damage to the kidneys, causing stones in the kidneys or causing kidney failure. Therefore, in order to better protect the health of the kidneys, the uric acid value in the serum is in a normal state for a long time. You can go to the hospital for kidney function examinations regularly and eat more black foods that help kidney health.
I would like to remind everyone that if it is hot summer, many people will use air conditioners to lower the room temperature. However, for gout patients, it is not recommended to use air conditioners frequently, and they cannot directly blow fans to avoid worsening the patient's condition.
