Can gout patients eat bird's nest?

Gout is a common disease problem among people, especially men, because men's body is less effective in excreting acid. Moreover, men’s usual diet should be unhealthy, such as eating too much meat and fish, and not liking to eat vegetables. Then gout patients should pay attention to their diet structure. There are some foods that gout patients cannot eat. Therefore, gout patients should have a specific understanding of this. Can gout patients eat bird’s nest?

First of all, we need to know the causes of gout. Gout, like the well-known “rich diseases” such as diabetes, hyperlipidemia, and obesity, is also a type of metabolic syndrome. As people's living standards improve and their lifestyles change, the incidence of gout increases year by year, but our understanding of it is far less than that of other diseases.

Gout is actually a disorder of protein metabolism in the body. The synthesis of uric acid (an oxidative metabolite of purine) increases or the excretion decreases, causing hyperuricemia. When the blood uric acid concentration is too high, uric acid is deposited in the joints, soft tissues, cartilage and kidneys in the form of sodium salt, causing foreign body inflammatory reaction in the tissue. Because gout is very painful when it attacks, and in severe cases it can even make it difficult to walk, but in the early stages of the disease it will heal naturally within a few days even without treatment, and it comes and goes like the wind, hence the name "gout."

For gout patients, diet therapy is very important, with some special requirements to reduce the intake of uric acid while increasing the excretion of uric acid as much as possible.

That is to say, gout patients cannot eat high-purine foods. Modern medical research has found that the main components of bird's nests are: water-soluble protein, carbohydrates and a variety of trace elements. It does not contain purine or nucleic acid. Therefore, there is no problem in eating bird's nest, please feel free to eat it.