What are the symptoms of gout?

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Gout is a common disease, this disease is relatively high incidence in the elderly, this disease will bring a great impact on the action of patients, but also make everyone's life appear certain obstacles, so we should treat the disease in time, but what are the symptoms of gout? Let's talk about it now.?

What are the symptoms of gout?

Acute gouty arthritis in this period of patients will suddenly appear severe joint pain, many occur in the night sleep, also because of pain and wake up. The most common is in the toe joint, the skin around the joint is red, obviously swollen, the skin temperature is increased, the pain is severe and unbearable, and there are often joint movement obstacles. Eating high purine food, drinking, cold, fatigue, or infection, trauma and surgery are common predisposing factors.

Intermission is the stage from the first gout attack to the next. In this period, some patients affected by the joint around the skin can appear desquamation and itching, which is also a unique manifestation of gout. The onset of gout intermission can be as long as several months to several years, but if there is no treatment or irregular treatment of patients, repeated attacks of acute arthritis will gradually develop into chronic arthritis.

With the increase of the number of acute attacks and the progress of the course of disease, the deposition of urate in the joint and other tissues is gradually aggravated, the number of invaded joints is also gradually increasing, and the joint inflammation is gradually developing into chronic. Generally, patients with more than two attacks within two months can be regarded as chronic arthritis. During this period, arthritis attacks are more and more frequent, the intermission period is shorter and shorter, the pain is increasing, and even after the attack can not be completely relieved. At this time, joint deformity, limited movement and gout stone begin to appear. Patients who can not be controlled for a long time can have renal function damage, or even renal failure.

matters needing attention

Drinking more water and less soup, patients with high blood uric acid and gout should drink more boiled water, less broth, fish soup, chicken soup, hot pot soup, etc. The osmotic pressure of boiled water is most conducive to the dissolution of various harmful substances in the body. Drinking more boiled water can dilute uric acid, accelerate the excretion, and reduce the level of uric acid. The soup contains a lot of purine components, which can not dilute uric acid, but lead to the increase of uric acid.