Gout acute attack symptom?

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Speaking of gout, many people may not know much. Some friends simply know that when the disease happens, they may cause joint pain. But if you ask specifically what gout is, there are not many people who can really understand this disease. It is not surprising, because gout incidence rate in China is still much lower than that in arthritis. So in order to let you know more about gout, this paper introduces the symptoms of gout acute attack.

Gout acute attack symptom?

Gout is not particularly obvious in the early stage, but there will be one or more episodes of renal colic before the first attack, and some patients will have proteinuria. However, it should be noted that the diagnosis of gout should meet the requirements of urate deposition and tissue inflammation, not only hyperuricemia.

Joint pain is the main symptom of intermittent gout, experts pointed out: this stage is mainly the time between gout attack and recurrence. Its length is different, short attack for months, long attack for years or even decades, there are also lucky patients did not attack again, which is closely related to the reasonable disease control.

Acute gout is a relatively early gout symptoms, at this stage it is characterized by acute onset, attack time in the middle of the night sudden, severe pain. The main symptoms of this stage are swelling and pain at the joint of big toe and elbow. Under microscope, pine needle like urate precipitation was found in the affected tissue.

matters needing attention

Gout patients have purine metabolism disorder and abnormal uric acid. If they eat too much acidic food, it will aggravate the disease and is not conducive to rehabilitation. Eating more alkaline food can help supplement potassium, sodium and chloride ions and maintain acid-base balance.