What are the symptoms of gout

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What are the symptoms of gout? Gout patients are mainly middle-aged and elderly male friends. Women may have gout individually after menopause. In addition, obese people with metabolic diseases such as hypertension and diabetes are more likely to have gout. The symptoms of gout attack mainly include the following points.

What are the symptoms of gout

Unbearable pain: when gout attacks, the pain is very strong. The pain is "knife like", "bite like" or "burning like", which is unbearable for most patients.

Attack mainly concentrated in the foot joint, suddenly appear big toe, ankle, knee joint, or lower limb a big joint swelling and pain. Paroxysmal: Gout before the onset may not have any precursor, mainly in the night attack, the patient will be awakened by the joint pain.

The most typical example is the night before the party, drinking, the next morning pain wake up, often take some painkillers, endure to the next day to gout specialist.

matters needing attention

Each acute attack time is about 1 week, and then natural remission, but gout will occur repeatedly, gout repeated attacks can lead to attack joint increase, affect the normal activity.