Can gout patients eat pigskin?


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Gouty patients can not eat pigskin, pigskin belongs to high purine food, after eating will cause uric acid obviously increased, so cause gout disease activity, gouty arthritis typical performance is the first metatarsophalangeal joint redness and heat pain, can also show heel pain, knee joint, ankle joint and hand joint and other parts of swelling pain, seriously affect the patient's quality of life. Acute attacks of gout can be relieved with colchicine, NSAIDs, or glucocorticoids. Remission of gout should be treated with uric acid lowering drugs, such as allopurinol, benzbromarone, or febuxostat. Uric acid should be controlled below 300 micromoles per liter to minimize the risk of gout recurrence.