Ankle gout symptoms?

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The severe pain of foot gout attack will bring great influence to patients, often make patients unable to walk, severe pain, suffering, familiar with the symptoms of foot gout, can help patients early detection and early treatment. Gout is a joint disease caused by excessive uric acid. Purine is a basic metabolic substance in human body, which is generally obtained through food intake and forms uric acid through oxidative metabolism. Under normal circumstances, uric acid in the body will be in a normal level of dynamic balance. When purine metabolism is disturbed, uric acid in the body will rise abnormally, leading to gout. Ankle gout symptoms? I'd like to share my views with you.

Ankle gout symptoms?

Gout stone. What symptom does ankle gout have? The first is the obvious gout stone. Gout stone is formed by the accumulation of uric acid crystals. You can feel it as hard as stone when you touch it. Gout stone can crush and tear the tissue around the joint, seriously affecting the normal activity of the ankle. With the aggravation of the disease, gout stone will become larger, and even burst the skin, causing inflammation.

Redness, swelling and fever. Ankle gout can be divided into acute and chronic. Acute ankle gout attack, the ankle will be in a short period of time rapid swelling, and accompanied by fever. Patients will obviously feel a squeeze and severe pain in the ankle, and the symptoms will be more severe in the middle of the night and in the morning.

Joint deformity. With the increase and volume of gout stone, the compression of gout stone on ankle joint is more and more intense, which will lead to the joint deformity and affect the normal activity function of patients. If not timely control, joint deformity will be permanent, will seriously affect the patient's life in the future!

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Ankle gout is one of the common types of gout, because the ankle is far away from the heart, it is easy to become the deposition point of uric acid. According to the patient's condition, you can choose drug therapy, Chinese medicine acupuncture and massage therapy and surgical treatment, usually can use cold or hot compress to relieve pain. Gout patients usually want to develop good eating habits, reduce the intake of high purine food, eat more alkaline food, the most important thing is to maintain a happy mood!