Public hospital physician Dr Who (pseudonym) once wrote an article dismantling gout symptoms, diet attention, treatment methods, including gout treatment drugs – the efficacy and side effects of taking allopurinol. The content is as follows:
“Gout is a very common disease.
Speaking of gout, many people will talk about purine (Purine). Speaking of purines in the outpatient clinic, my uncle would ask me “嗡啊X”. Purine is simply one of the substances that make up DNA / RNA, some foods have more and some foods have less. When you eat purine, your body converts it into uric acid and excretes it. When uric acid does not go away with urine, but deposits between the joints and causes inflammation, it is gout. Many people like to “test gout”, but they actually want to say “test uric acid”, but in fact, the level of uric acid has little to do with the diagnosis of gout. People with high uric acid do not necessarily have gout, and those with low uric acid do not necessarily have gout. The gold-standard diagnosis involves drawing the fluid that accumulates between the joints during a gout attack and placing it under a microscope to look for crystals of uric acid.
