If left untreated, excessive uric acid levels can cause serious complications such as permanent arthritis or kidney damage.
Gout is a particularly painful condition, consisting of a build-up of uric acid crystals (or urates) in the joints.
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Meat is a dead matter, low in minerals, and produces uric acid in excess which is a waste product.
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The investigators theorize that cherries may decrease serum uric acid levels by increasing the excretion of uric acid by the kidneys.
There are drugs, allopurinol and febuxostat, that can be taken daily for long periods of time to lower uric acid levels.
They are most commonly made of calcium, oxalate, cysteine or uric acid.
Crystals of uric acid salt are seen when the patient has gout.
Gout is a disease in which uric acid salts (urates) are deposited in joints or in soft tissues (this is called tophaceous gout).
Attacks can be agonising, with uric acid crystals deposited in the joints, particularly the knees, feet and ankles, though occasionally the elbows and wrists.
These include splurging in a diet high in uric acid, such as meat and shellfish or especially organ meats such as sweetbreads and liver.
Factors associated with increased serum uric acid levels, such as increased alcohol consumption and purine intake, or use of diuretics, were associated with increased risk for recurrent gout attacks.
Gout, a condition in which the buildup of uric acid in the joints causes pain and swelling, is treated with alopurinol, a drug that prevents the uric acid buildup and has been available in the United States since 1964.
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