What are the symptoms of gout?

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Now some people even think that gout is a very small disease, and it will not do great harm to people. This view is seriously wrong, because many people make their lives worse because of gout. What are the symptoms of gout? Let's go and have a look.

What are the symptoms of gout?

In persistent hyperuricemia, 20% of the patients had clinical manifestations of renal lesions. After several years or longer, renal tubules and glomeruli were damaged successively, and a few developed to uremia. The incidence of urate nephropathy is second only to gouty joint damage, and is closely related to the course of disease and treatment. Studies have shown that urate nephropathy has nothing to do with the severity of gouty arthritis, that is, patients with mild arthritis may also have renal lesions, while patients with severe arthritis may not have renal abnormalities. There was mild unilateral or bilateral low back pain in the early stage, followed by mild edema and moderate hypertension. Urine acid, intermittent or continuous proteinuria, generally not more than + +. Almost all of them had decreased renal tubular function, nocturia, polyuria and low relative density of urine. About 5-10 years later, the nephropathy worsened and then developed into uremia. About 17% - 25% of the patients died of renal failure.

The urine of patients with gout is acidic, so the concentration of uric acid in the urine increases. Small stones are excreted with the urine, but often without feeling. Small brown sand particles can be seen in the urine sediment; Larger stones can obstruct the ureter and cause hematuria and renal colic. Secondary infection becomes pyelonephritis due to poor urine flow. Huge stones can cause renal pelvis and calyces deformation and hydronephrosis. The X-ray of simple uric acid stone does not show, when there is sodium urate and calcium salt, the stone shadow can be seen on the X-ray.

It can be seen in the increase of uric acid in blood and urine, which is due to extensive obstruction of renal tubules caused by a large number of uric acid crystals. Gout is often accompanied by hypertension, hyperlipidemia, arteriosclerosis, coronary heart disease and type 2 diabetes. Among the causes of gout death in the elderly, cardiovascular factors far exceed renal insufficiency. However, there is no direct causal relationship between gout and cardiovascular disease, but both are related to obesity and diet.

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Early gout will not cause great harm to patients, so I hope that when a person finds that he has suffered from gout, he can take some measures to get rid of gout as soon as possible.