Symptoms of gout

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Gout patients in gout attack is very painful, some people with poor resistance will appear dizziness, many gout patients are lack of understanding of gout and lead to disease deterioration. After understanding the symptoms of gout attack, we can find and treat it in time. So the symptoms of carpal swelling and gout tell us

Symptoms of gout

In this stage, most patients have no obvious symptoms before the onset, it can be said that the patients have almost no physiological discomfort. The main performance of this stage is the continuous or fluctuating increase of serum uric acid. The time from the increase of serum uric acid to the appearance of symptoms can be as long as several years to decades. Only when arthritis occurs, it is called gout.

Attack stage is the most common first symptom of primary gout, which mainly occurs in the joints of lower limbs, especially in the joints of the great toe and the first metatarsophalangeal joint. At the beginning, it was monoarthritis, and the number of affected joints increased with repeated attacks. It often wakes up late at night due to joint pain, and the pain gradually intensifies, reaching the peak in about 12 hours, showing tearing, knife cutting or biting, which is intolerable. The affected joints and surrounding tissues were red, swollen, hot, painful and limited in function.

Gout attack lasts for several days to several weeks and can be relieved by itself. Generally, there is no obvious sequelae symptoms, or local skin pigmentation, desquamation and itching are left behind. It enters into an asymptomatic intermission period. The so-called intermission period refers to the interval between two attacks of gout, which is generally several months to one year. The affected joints generally develop from lower limbs to upper limbs, from distal small joints to large joints, and involve fingers, wrists, elbows and other joints. A few patients may affect shoulder, hip, sacroiliac, sternoclavicular or spinal joints, and may also involve periarticular bursa, tendons, tendon sheaths and other parts. The symptoms tend to be atypical.

matters needing attention

1. Avoid high purine foods, such as seafood, all kinds of meat, and some legumes. 2. Avoid drinking, irritant food and acid food. 3. Develop good living habits and avoid the factors causing metabolic disorder. 4. The examination found that the blood uric acid was on the high side and did not attract attention, which led to the existence of blood uric acid in the body for a long time