subject: What Is The Connection Between Gout and Kidney Failure? [print this page] What Is The Connection Between Gout and Kidney Failure?
Vicious Cycle, that is the correlation between gout and kidney failure. The question of whether it is gout that causes kidney failure or the other way around is like the chicken and egg mystery that puzzles the gout patients for decades. There is no definitive answer to that question, but you will see the big picture after when you put uric acid and gout drugs into the equation.
Every day, there are millions units of uric acid produced by your body that has to be carried to the kidneys for disposal through the urine.Naturally, the kidneys are born with enough capability to cope with the uric acid load, but the problem starts to arise when your diet and lifestyle becomesunnatural.
We are supposed to beomnivores that consume 85% of plant based and 15% animal based diet, but modern lifestyle has turned the percentage upside down. Instead of being moreherbivorous, we are becoming morecarnivorous. Some people even eat meats all day long without touching a stalk of vegetable at all! That is on top of the chaotic sleeping habit that messes up the body metabolic cycles.
The recommended daily protein consumption for a grown up adult ranges between 40 to 70 grams, but many people are eating way beyond that! Those unused amino acids will be transported to the liver to be converted to urea and then sent to the kidneys for excretion. These excess amount of urea and uric acid stress the kidney to work nonstop for years. Eventually, the kidneys start to become weak and that is when all sort of health problems arise, high blood pressure, high uric acid, high blood glucose and other health complications that follow through.
Gout is a symptom that indicates your body is overloaded with uric acid, and it serves as a qualitative indicator of how serious your condition is. As the gouty inflammation attacks more frequent, it means your uric acid disposal ability is getting weaker and weaker.
What make the condition even worse are those gout drugs and pain killers that you have been taking over the years. We all know that after the medicines have done its job, those chemicals in the drugs have to be broken down in the liver and then sent to kidneys (again) for disposal.
As you pop in more of those pills to treat your gout pain, you are actually destroying your kidneys even further. This explains why at least 50% of gout patients eventually have to go for dialysis to clean their blood as their kidneys fail to do the filtering job anymore.
Now you should understand better how gout and kidney failure come about. If you are still wondering what causes the problem, the answer is...You!
