What to do if your feet are swollen due to gout

I believe that people are not very unfamiliar with the disease of gout, because many factors in people’s daily lives can cause gout symptoms in the human body. Many gout patients will also find some complications when they develop this disease, that is, swollen feet caused by gout. Many people do not know how to treat this situation. So, what should we do if our feet are swollen due to gout?

First, what should we do about swollen feet caused by gout? Take care of your feet by taking more foot baths. Because most patients experience redness, swelling, heat and pain in the first metatarsophalangeal joint (big toe) when they first develop an attack. This is because the big toe is far away from the heart, the local blood circulation is poor, the toe temperature is low, and uric acid is easily deposited there. Therefore, gout patients should often take hot baths or soak their feet in hot water to promote blood circulation and reduce the deposition of uric acid. In addition, do not wear tight shoes to prevent blood circulation from being blocked and avoid gout attacks. Dietary guidance: While ensuring low purine intake, eat a balanced diet and avoid excessive or insufficient intake. The staple food is mainly low-purine refined grains. Coarse grains generally have higher purine content. You can eat green rice and lily porridge or earthworm porridge every morning. And eat eggs and milk to supplement protein. Patients with hypercholesterolemia, arteriosclerosis, and hypertension should not eat too many eggs (especially egg yolks). One egg a day is enough. In fact, gout patients can fully meet their body's protein needs by eating 1 egg and 2 cups of milk every day. Combined with the Ansinositide system diet therapy, it can effectively prevent the recurrence of gout.

Second, physical protection: Usually, you should deliberately protect your joints and prevent hypothermia, which are common inducing factors. In daily life, do not wear tight shoes and socks to prevent obstruction of blood circulation; during exercise, be careful not to over-exert joints; pay attention to keeping warm and avoiding cold due to weather changes. Cold can cause poor blood circulation and cause gout, and frostbite can cause infection in the affected area.

What should we do if our feet are swollen due to gout? Many people may think at first that the best and most direct way to treat swollen feet caused by gout is to reduce the swelling. This idea is understandable. In fact, I also thought so at the beginning, but this idea is not the best for us. Because this kind of swollen feet is not the general swollen feet, but is caused by gout. To solve this kind of swollen feet, we must also target gout, just like I used the Chinese medicine Shuangjiang Tea to regulate my body. Gout is caused by the oxidation of excessive purine substances in the body to form uric acid. The excess uric acid cannot be excreted and is deposited in various joints, leading to gout. Gout in the feet is caused by the deposition of excessive uric acid in joints such as the toes. Therefore, to reduce the occurrence of this situation, it is necessary to reduce the intake of substances with high purine content, especially the intake of animal offal, seafood, beer and other foods, and pay more attention to diet to maintain normal levels of uric acid in the body.