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the doctor told me that gout sufferer usually have a slightly acidic urine ~pH5.0. A healthy person should be around ~pH6 or higher. A vegetarian person he has met got ~pH7.
I am wondering is there any cheap way to do urine test, eg. pH test paper? so that sufferer could monitor the changes by themself everyday, and can continue with their prefer life style, have a heavy drinking nights, then eg if pH go low, go and take some sodium bicarbonate?
There are a lot of aspects of pH in the body that I don't fully understand.
I would be very interested to learn more about how gout affects urine pH. If you, or your doctor, have any reference material for this, I would love to receive it.
As far as testing urine pH is concerned, pH test paper and kits are widely available. Most drug stores or pharmacies will stock them, and they are easy to find online. If you enter 'pH urine test' in the search box on the right, you will get more information. Initially the results will be very gout related, but you then have the optiion of extending your search to the whole of the World Wide Web.
After the doctor's comment, I brought all my Uric Acid reading to the doctor (no new blood/urine test was made for this time attack)
My 2007 August uric acid reading is 0.508 … very high! compare but my urine pH was 6.5… very very normal
Can conclude there is no relationship between the 2.
New question: i went for jogging a fair bit (no gout for about 2 years, with no cut down on certain food or alcohol or beer) and it seems the jogging and excessive sweating trigger the gout attack, the muscular pain was there for 2 weeks, before i trigger another one on my foot which really looks like the standard acute gout (swollen feet).. and last for 2 weeks, that same night having severe attack, i have taken a multivitamin Mega B! I think it give a lot of loading to the already high uric acid level system
Exercise causes the muscles to secrete lactic acid. It is possible that this acidity affected the protein coating on the monosodium urate crystals left from previous gout episodes. Without the protein coating the immune system attacks the crystals.
The blood has a ph level of 7.4. At that level the uric acid is a slightly modified form called urate. The ph level inside the kidneys is considerably lower which causes the urate to become uric acid. When they measure the uric acid level in the blood, they are measuring urate level. When they measure the uric acid level in urine, they are measuring the uric acid level. I seem to remember the number of 3.5 for the kidney ph level but it might have been 5.5.
Treating gout effectively requires an understanding of how and why gout occurs. By increasing alkalinity, uric acid is less likely to crystallize and gout attacks are reduced
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