Gout is often thought of as a disease of middle age and rarely occurs in adolescents. However, with the improvement of people’s living standards and the change of diet structure, the trend of young gout is becoming more and more obvious. At present, the youngest gout patient reported in domestic literature is only 11 years old.

According to the White Paper on the Trend of Hyperuricemia and Gout in China 2021, the overall prevalence of hyperuricemia in China is 13.3%, affecting about 177 million people. The overall prevalence of gout is 1.1%, affecting about 14.66 million people. Nearly 60% of the patients are young adults between the ages of 18 and 35.

The post-90s have been “tripped” by gout, and the post-00s have also been hit, and all this is closely related to the accelerated pace of modern life, young people like to eat a high-purine diet, irregular life, less exercise, drinking sugary drinks and other factors.

High uric acid is a prerequisite for gout, which requires long-term active purine metabolism, and in severe cases induces arthritis, which may lead to gout. A large part of the reason for high uric acid is a high-purine diet, which includes fatty foods such as alcohol, cola and stock, big fish and meat, coupled with lack of exercise and staying up late, gout naturally comes to you. Don’t look at the usual nothing, once the attack, the pain is terrible.

Therefore, we must pay attention to the following points:

Don’t stay up late

The standard arrangement of 996 workers is to work overtime + stay up late. Mental pressure, work and rest is not normal, the body will be endocrine disorder. Gout happens to be a metabolic disease, and endocrine disorders will further interfere with the normal metabolism of uric acid, thus accelerating the induction of gout.

Abstinence from alcohol

If you want to be uric acid is not high, you must stop drinking, do not stop drinking and say no more is useless, in addition, such as cola and milk tea such drinks with a lot of sugar should not drink more, excessive drinking will also cause uric acid increase.

Eat less greasy food such as seafood and animal offal

The so-called disease from the mouth, most of the uric acid in the body is accompanied by food into the body. Those dreaded “gout meals”, which are some animal offal, seafood, broths and other high-purine foods, can easily cause the body’s uric acid levels to rise rapidly.

Blood uric acid levels were monitored regularly

Be sure to check your uric acid level regularly, and know yourself and your enemy can fight without danger. If you do not have time to go to the hospital, it is recommended to bring a uric acid meter to test uric acid.