You have to understand the causes of uric acid cause gout or before you do the treatment. This is important considering the minimum gout disease is divided into two kinds, namely primary gout and secondary gout. This division is based on a factor.
There are two major factors as the cause or causes of the disease in a person's uric acid. That is the cause of primary and secondary causes. Primary cause of the disease is derived from uric acid in the body itself being secondary cause comes from outside the body.
1. Causes of Uric Acid Primer
The cause is strongly associated with a factor of one's body but it is not certain. Thought to be caused by genetic factors and hormonal imbalance in the body that cause metabolic disorders that can lead to increased production of uric acid. It could also be caused by a disturbance in the process of spending uric acid from the body due to kidney trouble again.
2. Causes Uric Acid Secondary
The cause of this is closely linked to food intake into the body. Consumption of food containing purines as major factors for secondary causes this. Uric acid production increases due to the nutrients we consume high levels of purines. Purine bases is one of the organic compounds that make up the nucleic acid (the acid from the cell nucleus). He belongs to a group of amino acids, the building-blocks of proteins.
Increased production of uric acid can also be due to diseases of the blood (bone marrow disease, polycythemia), drugs (alcohol, drugs for cancer, vitamin B12). Other causes include obesity (overweight), skin diseases (psoriasis), high levels of triglycerides. In patients with uncontrolled diabetes are common to both levels of ketone bodies (waste product of fat metabolism) are elevated. Ketone bodies as these elevated uric acid also causes elevated.
Risk Factors
Risk factors that cause the disease gout is diet, obesity, and ethnicity.
In the world, ethnic highest prevalence in the Maori in Australia. The prevalence of the disease Maori high uric acid once, while in Indonesia, the highest prevalence in the population and the highest beach in Manado - Minahasa because fish eating habits and alcohol consumption.
Alcohol causes the removal of uric acid through the urine uric acid involved is reduced so that persisted in the blood. High fish consumption also lead to gout.
Intake into the body also affect the levels of uric acid in the blood. Foods that contain high purine substances are converted into uric acid. Particularly high in purines found in organ meats, seafood: shrimp, squid, mussels, crabs, anchovies.
If according to the results of laboratory tests uric acid levels are too high, we need to pay attention to the problem of food. Food and drinks are always consumed whether a trigger gout. In obese people, uric acid is usually increased while spending little. So for safety, people are usually advised to lose weight.
The most important thing to note is that high uric acid in the blood, without us knowing it would damage the organs, especially the kidneys, because the filter will clog. Blockage of the kidney filter will affect the appearance of a kidney stone, or can eventually lead to kidney failure.
Uric acid is also a risk factor for coronary heart disease. Allegedly uric acid crystals would damage the endothelium (the inner lining of blood vessels) coronary. Therefore, anyone that high uric acid levels should strive to lower it so that the damage does not spread to organs other.