PALOPOPOS.FAJAR.CO.ID, JAKARTA– Gout often affects anyone. What’s serious is when high uric acid attacks. High uric acid, also known as hyperuricemia, is a medical condition that can cause pain and inflammation in the joints.
In this article, we will discuss the causes of high uric acid.
Internal medicine specialist (internist) Dewi Widyastuti said that gout is a condition of high blood levels of purine which is caused by several things.
For example, due to high purine production in the blood or decreased secretion or excretion in the blood.
“Symptoms of gout that can be experienced by everyone include feeling pain in the joints and can be accompanied by swelling in the affected joints or can even have no symptoms at all,” he explained, quoted by FAJAR.CO.ID (palopopos group), from the Youtube channel Doctor Says, Saturday, September 23 2023.
According to Dewi Widyastuti, several known causes of gout include genetic factors.
“The genetic factors here are usually inherited by both parents. The most important thing is that we must understand that the genetic factors here can occur due to a gene mutation,” he explained.
Apart from that, as a result of the high level of purine in our food, “Some foods that we might be able to avoid to prevent a high purine diet are firstly spinach vegetables. Well, that’s high in purine,” he explained.
Second, he explained, the legume group. “Well, don’t forget tempeh, tofu, made from soybeans, soy sauce is also made from soybeans,” said this doctor who specializes in internal medicine.
“The third is a food group that is made from melinjo, so it could be emping or melinjo leaves or melinjo skin and the fourth is usually food that consists of cabbage, yes, this group of cabbage can be red cabbage, white cabbage or broccoli,” he explained. he. (fjr/pp)
2023-09-24 08:01:28
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