Can seafood and beer be eaten together? Will it cause gout?

In the hot summer, you can see many people drinking iced beer and eating seafood on the roadside or in restaurants. This sounds like a very pleasant thing. However, in recent years, there have been reports of gout caused by eating seafood and beer together. It looks delicious but you can't eat them at the same time. How can you bear this? Can seafood and beer really cause gout?

1. Seafood and beer can cause gout

The reason for this view is that seafood, especially shellfish, contains a large amount of purine, which is broken down into uric acid. Beer contains vitamin B1, a purine decomposition metabolic catalyst. Drinking a lot of beer and eating seafood will increase the uric acid level in the blood sharply, which is easily deposited in the joints and soft tissues, aggravating arthritis and triggering soft tissue inflammation leading to gout.

2. Seafood and beer cause gout

This view is not entirely correct. For gout patients, eating any food high in purine will induce symptoms. Simply eating seafood can also induce gout. Drinking a lot of alcohol is not conducive to the precipitation of uric acid in the renal tubules, and reducing uric acid excretion can also cause gout attacks. On the other hand, for healthy people, even if uric acid increases when eating seafood and beer, it can be eliminated through the kidneys. It is impossible for excessive uric acid to precipitate in the joints and cause gout.

Of course, it is important to emphasize that: Even so, this does not mean that you should eat as much as you want! If you drink a lot of beer and eat seafood for a long time, the risk of gout will be greatly increased, but there is a certain difference between increasing the risk and causing gout.