Blowing the air conditioner to induce gout?Expert: It's true

Recently, the high temperature of 38 ° C has continued to standby, and the air conditioners of each household have been turning. We all know that the air conditioner may cause headaches, colds and other discomfort, but Mr. Ding of Changsha has induced gout because of blowing air conditioning. What is going on?

On the morning of July 26, accompanied by his lover, Mr. Ding limped to the endocrine metabolic clinic clinic of the Third Hospital of Changsha City with a crutch. As soon as he entered the door, he shouted the gout and made him miserable.

Huang Debin, director of the Department of Endocrinology Metabolism, carefully checked and found that Mr. Ding was swollen and swollen with his left ankle, high temperature, and the pain was aggravated to detect 630 microl/liters of blood uric acid.

Further asked the medical history to learn that Mr. Ding had a history of gout for seven or eight years, and the maximum blood uric acid could reach more than 600 microl/liters (normal people with empty stomach blood uric acid <420 microl/liters). Every time he occurred, he took painkillers by himself, and he didn't care, and never regulated uric acid treatment.

"Strangely, I used to drink too much or eat seafood before gout. I have not went out to entertain recently. I’ m going to blow the air conditioner at home after get off work. untie.

Huang Debin told Mr. Ding that blowing the air conditioner may indeed induce gout.

We all know that at different temperatures, the solubility of material is different, and the solubility of uric acid is also closely related to temperature. As the temperature rises, the solubility of uric acid is declining, which also means that the same is equivalent to the same as At the concentration, the lower the temperature, the easier it is to make the uric acid crystals, and the deposition of uric acid salt crystals will cause gouty arthritis attacks. After knowing the relationship between temperature and uric acid salt crystals, it is not difficult to understand why it is easy to induce gout with cooling air conditioners.

In the hot summer, many people have the habit of blowing the air conditioner to sleep. When sleeping, exposing the feet outside the quilt. This causes gout attacks.

Mr. Ding has many years of gout history, and the level of blood uric acid is high. In addition, when sleeping in the air -conditioned room, he did not pay attention to keeping warm when sleeping. It exposed the feet. This induced the gout. Walking.

Huang Debin gave Mr. Ding's symptoms and relieving pain and uric acid reduction. Mr. Ding said helplessly: "I know this time. I also need to put on socks when blowing the air conditioner in the future to avoid cooling the gout!"

Huang Debin reminded patients with gout that when blowing air conditioners in the hot summer, they should focus on keeping warm measures on various joints, such as wearing thin long sleeves, trousers, socks, etc., to avoid the joints directly exposed to the low temperature environment; the air conditioner temperature is maintained at 26 ° C ~ 27 ° C, drink more water to replenish water; before leaving the air -conditioned room, it is best to turn off the air conditioner 20 minutes in advance to give the body a process of adapting to temperature changes. More importantly, the treatment of uric acid reduction is performed to fundamentally prevent gout.

(Source: Zhang Ting, Department of Endocrinology Metabolism, Changsha Third Hospital)

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