Finger joint pain after drinking

When it comes to drinking, everyone can definitely think of a lot of things. Because wine has become an integral part of Chinese culture. In ancient times, there were scholars and poets who could compose poems after drinking: Li Bai could write hundreds of poems after drinking a jar of wine. In modern times, wine has become an indispensable part of people's table etiquette. Because wine is made from grain. It contains some nutrients. It is said that drinking a little can make you happy, but drinking too much can harm your body. In addition, in modern society, cars have become an essential means of transportation for people to go out. However, car accidents occurred frequently due to drinking. The country warns us not to drink and drive, and not to drive after drinking. When it comes to drinking, it may be difficult to associate it with finger joint pain. Are they related?

1. Causes of joint pain after drinking

Joint pain after drinking is most likely caused by gout due to uric acid deposition in the joints. This is because alcohol, especially beer, is a high-purine food. Long-term drinking may cause excessive purine in the body and cause a disorder in the body's internal structure. The uric acid generated by the oxidation of purine accumulates in the body, especially in the joints, causing pain.

The disease usually occurs in the thumb joint, ankle joint, knee joint, etc. In patients with long-term gout, attacks may occur in the finger joints and even the soft tissue part of the ear. Acute gout attacks cause redness, swelling, heat and severe pain at the site of the attack, which usually occurs at midnight and can wake people from sleep. In the early stages of gout, attacks often occur in the lower limbs. Gout can cause kidney damage.

2. Gout not only harms joints

People generally believe that gout mainly causes joint pain, and that gouty arthritis pain is self-limiting and often disappears automatically within a few days or weeks, so many people will "forget the pain after the wound heals" and no longer care about it. In fact, this is wrong.

From an orthopedic perspective, the uric acid crystals in the body have not disappeared. If not treated in time, uric acid crystals will continue to deposit and gouty arthritis will recur. From an endocrinologist's perspective, hyperuricemia has not disappeared and it will affect various organs throughout the body. For example, it will cause metabolic cardiovascular risk factors such as hypertension, hyperlipidemia, type 2 diabetes, obesity, insulin resistance, etc. to coexist and influence each other, and it has been proven that it may directly cause cardiovascular disease.

The harm of hyperuricemia to the kidneys: causing uric acid nephropathy, kidney stones, and renal failure. The risk of renal dysfunction caused by blood uric acid is even higher than that of urine protein.

3. What happens if you drink too much?

3.1. Alcohol can cause a series of structural and functional changes in myocardial cells. Drinking large amounts of alcohol can cause significant damage to the myocardium.

Alcohol can cause myocardial cell death, protein degradation in the myocardium, myocardial dysfunction, etc., ultimately leading to abnormal myocardial cell energy metabolism and myocardial damage, and even heart failure. If there is a problem with the myocardium, the heart may beat faster or slower, may not beat strongly enough, or may even be unable to beat at all. Therefore, for some people who already have heart disease, drinking during the holidays may lead to sudden death.

3.2. Alcohol also causes vasoconstriction and increases blood pressure. Some people experience obvious headaches and palpitations after drinking, which are related to this. Especially for people who do not drink often, their blood pressure will rise acutely after drinking a large amount of alcohol at one time, but after a few hours, blood vessels will dilate and blood pressure will drop. This roller coaster of blood pressure can easily lead to cerebral hemorrhage, etc.

3.3. Excessive drinking can damage the stomach, intestines, liver and other internal organs. After alcohol enters the human body, it first stimulates the gastrointestinal tract. Some people say that drinking some milk or yogurt in advance can protect the gastrointestinal tract. This statement is correct, but this method can only slow down the absorption of alcohol, but cannot reduce it. Therefore, alcohol will still damage the internal organs of the human body. Especially the liver, because the liver is the main organ for alcohol metabolism, many people who drink alcohol for a long time will eventually develop fatty liver and cirrhosis, and more seriously, liver cancer will occur.