What is high uric acid and what are the causes?

Uric acid is the end product of purine metabolism. It is a trioxypurine, and its alcohol formula is weakly acidic. The uric acid produced by the oxidation of various purines is excreted in the urine.

If the solubility is small, urinary tract stones or gout can form. High uric acid can be said to be a metabolic disorder in the human body. The main causes of high uric acid are as follows:

1. Caused by eating too much purine food. High-purine foods, long-term eating or eating too much at one time, resulting in high uric acid production and unable to be excreted in time; 2. The patient's uric acid function decreases. Most of this situation is due to the decline of kidney function, which leads to incomplete uric acid discharge and high uric acid value.

3. Factors of irregular life. Irregular lifestyle and eating style can lead to high uric acid value, which is not very serious, patients only need to improve their good diet, they can restore uric acid value in a short period of time, and generally do not need to carry out **. Long-term high uric acid will not only lead to the appearance of gout, but also cause certain damage to the patient's kidneys and other metabolism, so it is necessary to control the phenomenon of high uric acid in time.

High uric acid may be due to excessive intake of purines in the diet, such as animal liver and fat, seafood, alcohol, etc. It can also be caused by metabolic abnormalities caused by some diseases.

As one of the 4 highs, high uric acid is already one of the most familiar diseases for people, and it is no longer exclusive to middle-aged people, and the disease group is getting younger and younger. High uric acid will first damage the health of the kidneys, resulting in the decline of kidney function, men with bad kidneys will affect the sexual experience, and women with bad kidneys will become old, fat and ugly. You can often drink Defu's Zifeng herbal tea to control the uric acid value.

So, what's the deal with high uric acid?

Uric acid is divided into blood uric acid and uric acid, the former refers to the uric acid in the blood, and the usual hyperuricemia refers to the increase in blood uric acid; The latter refers to uric acid in the urine, which is the uric acid excreted into the urine by the blood uric acid, and is an indicator of how much uric acid is excreted in the blood.

Why is blood uric acid elevated?

One is the excessive intake of high-purine foods, which are decomposed by the liver and increase the uric acid in the blood, but only account for 20% of the total uric acid in the blood;

Second, the liver synthesizes purines and then metabolizes to produce uric acid, which greatly increases the concentration of uric acid in the blood, accounting for 80% of the uric acid in the blood;

Third, the excretion of uric acid by the kidneys is reduced, and the uric acid in the blood is metabolized by the kidneys into the urine and excreted from the body.

High uric acid means eating foods that are high in purines. For example, seafood contains a lot of purines, and there are all kinds of soy products, beer, and so on.

1. Intake of too much food that may produce uric acid, such as animal offal, seafood, wine and other foods contain a large number of substances that can produce uric acid, so it will cause an increase in blood uric acid; 2. It may be that our body has a fast metabolism or some other diseases, such as tumors that cause a lot of extra uric acid in the body, resulting in an increase in blood uric acid levels; 3. The production of uric acid is normal, and the intake is also normal, but the excretion is reduced, such as the uremia patients with renal insufficiency cannot excrete uric acid, resulting in an increase in the level of uric acid in the blood, and some exogenous factors may also affect the excretion of uric acid, such as diuretics or other drugs, carbonated drinks may affect the excretion of blood uric acid into the body, and will also cause an increase in blood uric acid. In summary, the intake or production of uric acid increases and the excretion decreases, resulting in an imbalance in the inflow and outlet, resulting in an increase in the level of uric acid in the blood. The premise of high uric acid is due to the abnormality of the body's own metabolic system, and if the entire system of uric acid metabolism is normal, there will be no increase in uric acid.

The causes of high uric acid are mainly in two aspects. One aspect is that the purine metabolism in the body is abnormal, resulting in excessive uric acid production, and the excretion of uric acid is too small, which causes uric acid to rise. On the other hand, it may also be due to the elevation of blood uric acid caused by eating high-purine foods.

High-purine foods include organ meats, seafood, soy products, and alcoholic beverages. Elevated uric acid can lead to an increased chance of gouty arthritis symptoms. If you have high uric acid, you can take traditional Chinese medicine that promotes uric acid excretion, and drink two cups of Shifeng herbal tea every day, which can effectively prevent the body's absorption of uric acid and accelerate uric acid excretion.

What to eat for high uric acid.

1. Guava is a low-purine food, containing a lot of vitamins and proteins in the body, many people think that its taste is relatively sour, so it should be acidic food, but in fact it is alkaline food, which can well regulate the acid-base balance in the human body.

2. As a natural uric acid-lowering plant, cat's mustard is widely used by people, in addition to the well-known ability to reduce uric acid, it can also clear away heat and dampness.

3. Cherries contain a substance that is very suitable for patients with high uric acid, that is, anthocyanins, which can effectively improve the effect of glomeruli, can play a good role in filtering uric acid, and prevent excessive absorption of uric acid by renal tubules. It should be noted that you should not eat too much, an average of a dozen a day is enough.

4. Winter melon lotus leaf tea has a good diuretic and dampness function, which can make the acidic substances in the human body be well excreted through urine, so it has a good effect on reducing uric acid.

5. The diuretic effect of hawthorn water is obvious to all, if you are a patient with symptoms of high uric acid, you can eat more hawthorn water, which can not only reduce uric acid, but also reduce triglycerides and cholesterol, and reduce the chance of arteriosclerosis in the human body.

The body's uric acid is mainly caused by excessive production or too little excretion, and hyperuricemia. Generally, uric acid is produced too much, including several reasons, such as familial hyperuricemia, that is, people with a history of gout are prone to excessive purine base production of uric acid due to defects in enzyme metabolism. In addition, in certain disease states, such as tumors, leukemia, myeloproliferative diseases, polycythemia, etc., especially malignant tumors, will cause cell metabolism to be significantly accelerated, which will increase the production of purine base into uric acid, so too much uric acid will be produced.

Hyperuricemia can also occur due to decreased uric acid excretion due to certain kidney diseases. Diseases such as glomerulonephritis and tubular damage can lead to decreased uric acid excretion, which can lead to an increase in uric acid.

Finally, there is the effect of the drug. Because many chemotherapy drugs, aspirin, diuretics, etc., can cause uric acid excretion disorders or excessive uric acid production, thus causing hyperuricemia.

Normally, our human uric acid is about 1200mg, about 600mg is newly produced every day, and 600mg is excreted at the same time, which is in a balanced state. If the uric acid excretion mechanism deteriorates, the body retains too much uric acid.

In most cases, normal uric acid should be between 150 and 420 umol l for men and 100 to 360 umol l for women. If this range is exceeded, uric acid will occur. It should be noted that the testing equipment of each hospital is different, and the test results set up are also slightly different, and the local testing should prevail.

In fact, there are many reasons for high uric acid, in addition to some diseases itself, long-term unreasonable diet will also lead to high uric acid. Generally speaking, it mainly includes the following aspects:

1.If you have abnormal kidney function, the excretion of uric acid will decrease, which will induce an increase in uric acid, and the common kidney diseases are chronic kidney inflammation, kidney stones, and hydronephrosis.

2.In addition to kidney disease, diabetes, coronary heart disease, atherosclerosis, high blood pressure, etc. can also cause high uric acid.

3.Eating too much high-purine foods will also increase uric acid. For example, people like to eat a lot of meat and seafood in their lives, which leads to a significant increase in purine intake, which will cause excessive uric acid over time.

4.Abnormal purine metabolism, a condition that is mainly related to genetics.

5.Drug factors, some patients with high blood pressure need to take some diuretics for a long time, and some drugs can cause nephrotoxicity, so they will also cause high uric acid. For high uric acid caused by the drug, most of them will return to normal after the drug is stopped.

If you find that your uric acid level is above the normal range, you need to ** it early to avoid gout. Normally, we can regulate from the aspects of life and diet, such as exercising more, drinking more water, and urinating more, which are conducive to the excretion of uric acid. Secondly, the diet must be healthy and regular, try to eat some foods low in purines, and eat less animal offal, seafood, thick soup, beer, etc.

Eat plenty of fresh vegetables and fruits.

If you pay attention to conditioning in your daily life, the uric acid value will also return to the normal range, so don't worry too much. However, for patients with pre-existing kidney problems, they should seize the time to ** the primary disease. Only when the kidney problem is solved, high uric acid is naturally solved.

It is recommended that everyone have a physical examination once a year, so that we can find out if there are any minor problems in the body in time, and we can take measures as soon as possible to prevent them in time.

High uric acid is usually caused by diet, if the uric acid is high, it may be that you eat more foods with uric acid content, so the metabolic rate of the liver and kidneys in your body is reduced, so it is high.

There are two causes of high blood uric acid, which can be divided into primary and secondary. Primary hyperuricemia may be caused by decreased uric acid excretion and excessive purine intake, and rarely due to genetic factors, such as defects in purine metabolizing enzymes, which may lead to elevated serum uric acid. However, most of them are due to decreased uric acid excretion, and many of them are due to kidney disease.

Because everyone's living standards have improved now, in terms of diet, especially some young people do not pay special attention, drinking beer, eating barbecue, eating hot pot, etc. can cause the increase of purines in the body, thus causing hyperuricemia. Therefore, in terms of diet, you must eat a healthy diet, eat a low-purine diet, and don't stay up late, and cooperate with appropriate physical exercise, these methods can reduce the high uric acid level in the body. In addition to the appeal method, if the uric acid is high, you can drink the tea of Xuefeng herb, which has a significant uric acid-lowering effect and can restore the kidney's ability to excrete uric acid.

Do these three things more to make our uric acid level low.

1. Restrain your mouth.

In order for our uric acid level to stop rising, the first thing we need to do is to control our own mouth. Don't let our mouths eat indiscriminately, especially not to eat some foods high in purines, such as seafood, animal offal, and drinks, etc., which are not edible.

2. Step out of your legs.

In addition to keeping our mouths in check, we have to open our legs. Because only exercise can make our bodies stronger. Enhances our metabolism.

Only when our metabolism is high can we speed up the discharge of garbage in our body, so people with high uric acid in the body must exercise more, and in addition, we must not eat foods high in purines, remember!

There are two major reasons for high uric acid: First, there is a problem with the purine metabolism pathway in the body, and the uric acid produced exceeds the normal excretion of the kidneys, so that the uric acid content in the blood remains high. Second, it is a long-term bad eating habit (eating a lot of food with high purine content for a long time), which makes the use of uric acid in the body increase for a long time.

High uric acid is caused by some problems and pathologies in the kidneys, resulting in too many acidic metabolites.

It indicates that the body's functional metabolic capacity has decreased.