What disease is gout? What symptom

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Nowadays, many elderly people do not pay attention to diet or environment when they are young, which leads to gout. Gout is often confused with other diseases, such as itching. Many elderly people refuse to go to the hospital for examination. If they feel itchy, they rub some anti itching drugs. In fact, this is not good, To let patients understand the gout phenomenon, let me share with you, hoping to help people in need.

What disease is gout? What symptom

First, gout can be divided into many kinds, one of which is acute gouty arthritis. This kind of gout is the most common. It attacks very quickly. Within a few hours of onset, the joints will be affected, that is, there will be obvious feeling of redness, swelling and heat pain. It doesn't often attack during the day, but often attacks at night, and it often causes blindness. When this kind of gout attacks, the symptoms of the whole body are obvious, For example, fever, feeling fatigue, heart rate acceleration and so on

Second, gout is also divided into chronic gouty arthritis, which is caused by repeated attacks of acute arthritis, causing fibrosis in joint tissue and deposition of gout stone in articular cartilage, synovium and ligament, resulting in gradual destruction and deformation of diseased joints, loss of motor function, toes and interphalangeal joints, There is also the knee and other joints will feel abnormal pain.

Third: if it is secondary gout, it usually occurs before hyperuricemia. The most obvious special diagnosis of this disease is hematuria. A large number of urate crystals can be seen in the urine sediment. Patients will have hematuria, urination pain, nausea, vomiting and other phenomena.

matters needing attention

Gout patients are generally treated with allopurinol, especially for patients with hematuria. Usually, we must pay attention to supplement more foods rich in calcium, such as pig bones and so on.