What is gout and what are the symptoms

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Nowadays, many elderly people do not pay attention to diet or environment when they are young, which leads to gout. Many gout phenomena will be confused with other diseases, such as itching. Many elderly people refuse to go to the hospital for examination. If they feel itchy, they will rub some antipruritic drugs. In fact, this is not good. It is necessary to let the patients suffer Now let me share with you, hoping to help people in need.

What is gout and what are the symptoms

First: Gout is divided into many kinds, one of which is acute gouty arthritis, this kind of gout is the most common, it occurs very quickly, in the onset of a few hours will be affected joints, that is, there will be obvious swelling and hot pain feeling, not often attack during the day, often attack at night, often blind, in this kind of gout attack, systemic symptoms are more obvious For example, fever, feeling of fatigue, increased heart rate and so on are obvious symptoms.

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

Third: 3 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, urine 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.