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Pankti Mehta

Aug 7 • 4 tweets • 2 min read

"Your diagnosis is elevated uric acid. You need to stop eating 🍅🥗🥦🥪🥩🫘, basically everything"

Beware of these!!

Elevated uric acid doesn't always 🟰 gout

#MedEd #MedTwitter #gout #Uricacid

Gout is a form of arthritis due to deposition of excess uric acid in joints and it usually has (not always) high serum uric acid levels.

If one has gout, then avoid:

🍺 Alcohol
🥩 Red meat
🧃 packed juices, carbonated drinks (high fructose corn syp)

Other causes of raised uric acid:
🔸 dehydration
🔸Kidney disease
🔸 Metabolic syndrome
🔸Drugs
🔸Malignancies
🔸Alcohol
🔸 Genetic

To name a few !!

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