Wu, a 29-year-old resident of Guangdong, China, has been in a very grueling job since his teens. Because of this, he became addicted to drinking large quantities of beer every night to relax.
Sometimes Wu could drink up to 10 cans of beer a night and this did not cause him any problems. Until recently.
Two weeks ago, Wu developed pain in one knee. Every day she became more and more burning, and two weeks later the man could no longer not only work and walk, but also had difficulty falling asleep.
Only then did he ask two of his friends to bring him to the hospital. On examination, doctors found something that looked like a tumor in his knee and ordered a puncture for testing.
Having punctured Wu with a needle, the doctor was amazed, as a white-yellow cloudy liquid flowed from the hole. This was fundamentally different from any bodily or purulent fluids the doctor had previously had to deal with. At the same time, it was also with bubbles of foam and looked very much like … beer.
There was a lot of such liquid in the knee and it was removed with the help of thick syringes. However, what was it?
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At first, this mystery puzzled doctors, and only after asking Wu and learning about his long-term addiction to beer, the doctors concluded that the liquid was associated with this drink.
And then Wu was diagnosed with gout. Gout occurs when too many crystalline uric acid salts (urates) form in the joints. Because of this, the joint becomes inflamed and sore. Urates get into the joints from the blood, and high levels of uric acid in the blood are obtained when the body receives a lot of purine, which is found in meat, seafood and alcoholic beverages. Especially in beer.
The fluid that accumulated in Wu's knee was saturated with uric acid and so much of it was due to his addiction to drink.
Luckily for Wu, he was given the pills he needed and his joint pain subsided, after which the inflammation began to subside. He was soon discharged from the hospital, warned not to drink so much beer at a time.