What symptom does child gout have?

summary

Gout is a crystal related arthritis caused by monosodium urate (MSU) deposition, which is directly related to hyperuricemia caused by purine metabolism disorder and (or) reduced uric acid excretion. It refers to acute characteristic arthritis and chronic gout stone disease, mainly including acute paroxysmal arthritis, gout stone formation, gout stone chronic arthritis, gout stone chronic arthritis, and so on Urate nephropathy and uric acid urinary calculi, severe can appear joint disability and renal insufficiency. Gout is often accompanied by abdominal obesity, hyperlipidemia, hypertension, type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

What symptom does child gout have?

Gout has four stages of symptoms, the first stage of asymptomatic hyperuricemia, this stage did not appear clinical symptoms of arthritis, gout stone, or uric acid stone and other clinical symptoms, the only indicator to determine their suffering from gout is the continuous or fluctuating increase of uric acid content in the blood.

In the second stage of acute gouty arthritis, patients in this stage will have severe pain symptoms in the affected joints. In the early stage of the disease, they often invade a single joint (accounting for 90%), about half of which occurs in the metacarpal joint of one foot. Therefore, patients have difficulty in pain and can not put on shoes, and they will find that the normal function of these joints has obvious obstacles. When you measure your body temperature, you'll find an increase in temperature.

The third attack interval, gout attack interval refers to the period when the patient's symptoms disappear, that is, the patient does not have any clinical symptoms; The duration of the attacks varies from one to two days to a few weeks. About 7% of the patients are very lucky. Their gout will subside naturally without any symptoms, but most patients will relapse within one year.

matters needing attention

Avoid alcohol. Alcohol can inhibit the excretion of uric acid, long-term small amount of drinking can also stimulate the increase of purine synthesis, especially when drinking meat and poultry food, it will double the purine intake.