Symptoms of gouty arthritis

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Gouty arthritis, can be linked to a number of key body, such as wrist or knee joints can be affected, there are patients with ankle and elbow joints are affected. After the onset of the disease, the movement function of these affected joints is obviously limited, and the joint parts are red, swollen, hot and painful, which causes the patients very uncomfortable. These joint symptoms caused by gouty arthritis usually disappear in a week or two after attack, often because patients drink or eat high purine food.

Symptoms of gouty arthritis

If it is chronic gouty arthritis, it will attack again in 6 months to 2 years after the first attack, often multiple joints are involved, leading to joint swelling, joint dysfunction, and even joint deformity.

Gouty arthritis can also form gout stone in joints, which is mainly because the level of uric acid in gout patients is too high, there are urate crystals precipitated, and finally precipitated in the joints affected by gout. This phenomenon generally appears at about 10 o'clock after the onset of gout arthritis.

Once the gout stone is formed in patients with gouty arthritis, it can lead to skin ulceration at the joint, which can discharge white uric acid crystals from the skin at the ulceration, and it is also easy to form fistula, which is not easy to heal, and the affected joints will be seriously damaged.

matters needing attention

Gout arthritis attack is very sudden, some patients sleep until midnight when a sudden gout attack, and then patients were awakened from sleep. It should also be noted that in patients with gouty arthritis, about 20% of patients will be accompanied by gouty nephropathy.