30 years
My blood test showed again high uric acid of 8.25 mg/dl What should I do to lower it? I have cut back significantly on red meat, chocolate, tomoates.
Jul 14, 2014
The blood uric acid test measures the amount of uric acid in a blood sample. Uric acid is produced from the natural breakdown of your body's cells and from the foods you eat.
Most of the uric acid is filtered out by the kidneys and passes out of the body in urine. A small amount passes out of the body in stool. But if too much uric acid is being produced or if the kidneys are not able to remove it from the blood normally, the level of uric acid in the blood increases.
High levels of uric acid in the blood can cause solid crystals to form within joints. This causes a painful condition called gout . If gout remains untreated, these uric acid crystals can build up in the joints and nearby tissues, forming hard lumpy deposits called tophi. High levels of uric acid may also cause kidney stones or kidney failure.
However ,Having a high uric acid level does not mean that you have gout . If your uric acid level is high and you do not have any other symptoms, you will not need to take any medicine to decrease your uric acid level.
Keep in mind that while limiting or cutting out alcohol and certain foods that are high in purines is important, that alone may not be enough to get rid of the buildup of uric acid and help reduce future gout attacks.
And, in most cases, a strict low-purine diet has been shown to reduce uric acid levels by about 1 mg/dL.
Uric acid crystals sometimes form in joints even at levels less than 7 mg/dL, especially in men.
High uric acid values may be caused by:
-Individual differences in the way your body produces or gets rid of uric acid.
-Kidney disease or kidney damage.
-The increased breakdown of body cells that occurs with some types of cancer (including leukemia, lymphoma, and multiple myeloma) or cancer treatments, hemolytic anemia, sickle cell anemia, or heart failure.
-Other disorders, such as alcohol dependence, preeclampsia, liver disease (cirrhosis), obesity, psoriasis, hypothyroidism, and low blood levels of parathyroid hormone.
-Starvation, malnutrition, or lead poisoning.
-Medicines, such as some diuretics, vitamin C (ascorbic acid), lower doses of aspirin (75 to 100 mg daily), niacin, warfarin (such as Coumadin), cyclosporine, levodopa, tacrolimus, and some medicines used to treat leukemia, lymphoma, or tuberculosis.
-Eating foods that are very high in purines, such as organ meats (liver, brains), red meats (beef, lamb), game meat (deer, elk), some seafood (sardines, herring, scallops), and beer.
So try to check with the doctor to figure out the cause of having your uric acid high beside other symptoms he may prescribed you certain medications to lower your uric acid and to treat if there is a certain condition causing it.
Most of the uric acid is filtered out by the kidneys and passes out of the body in urine. A small amount passes out of the body in stool. But if too much uric acid is being produced or if the kidneys are not able to remove it from the blood normally, the level of uric acid in the blood increases.
High levels of uric acid in the blood can cause solid crystals to form within joints. This causes a painful condition called gout . If gout remains untreated, these uric acid crystals can build up in the joints and nearby tissues, forming hard lumpy deposits called tophi. High levels of uric acid may also cause kidney stones or kidney failure.
However ,Having a high uric acid level does not mean that you have gout . If your uric acid level is high and you do not have any other symptoms, you will not need to take any medicine to decrease your uric acid level.
Keep in mind that while limiting or cutting out alcohol and certain foods that are high in purines is important, that alone may not be enough to get rid of the buildup of uric acid and help reduce future gout attacks.
And, in most cases, a strict low-purine diet has been shown to reduce uric acid levels by about 1 mg/dL.
Uric acid crystals sometimes form in joints even at levels less than 7 mg/dL, especially in men.
High uric acid values may be caused by:
-Individual differences in the way your body produces or gets rid of uric acid.
-Kidney disease or kidney damage.
-The increased breakdown of body cells that occurs with some types of cancer (including leukemia, lymphoma, and multiple myeloma) or cancer treatments, hemolytic anemia, sickle cell anemia, or heart failure.
-Other disorders, such as alcohol dependence, preeclampsia, liver disease (cirrhosis), obesity, psoriasis, hypothyroidism, and low blood levels of parathyroid hormone.
-Starvation, malnutrition, or lead poisoning.
-Medicines, such as some diuretics, vitamin C (ascorbic acid), lower doses of aspirin (75 to 100 mg daily), niacin, warfarin (such as Coumadin), cyclosporine, levodopa, tacrolimus, and some medicines used to treat leukemia, lymphoma, or tuberculosis.
-Eating foods that are very high in purines, such as organ meats (liver, brains), red meats (beef, lamb), game meat (deer, elk), some seafood (sardines, herring, scallops), and beer.
So try to check with the doctor to figure out the cause of having your uric acid high beside other symptoms he may prescribed you certain medications to lower your uric acid and to treat if there is a certain condition causing it.
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it is a high uric acid you have to stict\k qn your diet take allopurinol200 mg daily
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