Symptoms of gout patients

summary

Gout is a disease caused by metabolic system dysfunction. The main sign is the increase of uric acid. In recent years, the living standard and quality have been improved. The number and incidence rate of gout patients are also increasing, especially in some middle-aged and elderly people. Metabolic diseases often appear. Let's take a look at the symptoms of gout patients.

Symptoms of gout patients

Asymptomatic stage in this stage, most patients have no obvious symptoms before onset, it can be said that patients have almost no physiological discomfort, this stage is mainly manifested as continuous or fluctuating increase of serum uric acid, from the increase of serum uric acid to the appearance of symptoms can be as long as several years to decades, only in the occurrence of arthritis is called gout.

Acute arthritis 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 thumb 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.

Intermittent gout attack lasts for several days to several weeks, and can be relieved by itself, generally without obvious sequelae symptoms, or leaving local skin pigmentation, desquamation and itching, etc., entering the asymptomatic intermittent period. The so-called intermittent period refers to the interval between the two onset of gout, which is generally several months to a 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

How low purine foods should gout patients eat. Be careful not to drink.