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Self-monitoring of Uric Acid levels

Greetings all - a newbie to this list here...
I find advice like 'don't eat too many purines' useless in any
practical sense; how many is 'too many'?
Are there any techniqes etc. for self-monitoring of uric acid levels
so that one can monitor the effectiveness of dietary control techniques?
Also, is there any way of working out / measuring what the critical
contentration is for causing preciptation of uric acid crystals in any
particular individual?
In other words, how can I adopt a 'scientific' approach to
self-management of uric acid levels. I feel it ought to be possible
to have some kind of daily / weekly metric such as "Today: 70% of
critical level, yesterday 55%, last week 45%" and so on.
I suppose I'm looking for a Gout equivalent of a diabetic's blood
sugar self-assessment kit.
Is there such a thing? Could there be?
Chris Haynes

2007-05-27 00:46:11 | Author clementine_7

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3 Responses to Self-monitoring of Uric Acid levels

  1. brad_20 on 2007-05-27 10:05:27.221960

    Many thanks to Bob, Arnold and John for the useful replies.
    I've been googling for meters and can only find two:
    UUA-001 from Uchain Industrial http://www.uchain.com.tw/
    UASure from Apex bio Company site is: http://www.apexbio.com/ but cannot
    find product.
    both of which use test strips.
    Can anyone point me at any other products?
    TIA
    Chris Haynes
    "arnoldtheskier" replied helpfully:

  2. lelia_30 on 2007-05-27 08:52:00.909711

    Chris,

    Perhaps only one?

    UASure is the Uchain product that I use.

    Maybe Apex bio is a distributor for Uchain. When I bought mine, 18 months ago, Uchain had no distributors in Europe, and one had to buy direct from Taiwan - today I am not sure if this is still the case.

    Regards,

    Bob.

  3. brad_20 on 2007-05-28 02:08:02.702631

    Yes, you do still have to buy from Taiwan, but they are out of stock at the moment; another manufacturing batch is due in May.

    Thanks,

    Chris

    Bob Bottomley replied:

    Chris,

    Perhaps only one?

    UASure is the Uchain product that I use.

    Maybe Apex bio is a distributor for Uchain. When I bought mine, 18 months ago, Uchain had no distributors in Europe, and one had to buy direct from Taiwan - today I am not sure if this is still the case.

    Regards,

    Bob.

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