Symptoms of gout

summary

Gout is a kind of joint disease, mainly due to the disorder of purine metabolism and low uric acid excretion in the body, which causes a disease related to hyperuricemia. It does great harm to patients, especially serious patients, which can lead to joint disability or renal insufficiency. Therefore, we must pay attention to prevention. Gout patients are mostly obese, in addition, hypertension, hyperlipidemia are also prone to gout, more common in middle-aged men. So what are the specific symptoms of gout? In fact, gout is divided into primary and secondary. Let's take a look at their symptoms.

Symptoms of gout

The main symptoms of primary gout are: patients will have hyperuricemia, but very hidden, mostly found in the physical examination, and once symptoms, acute attack, patients will have the phenomenon of red, swollen and hot pain of affected joints, and often occur at night, the site of the disease is joints, especially the first metatarsophalangeal common. Chronic gout patients can not be accompanied for a long time, which will lead to joint deformation, loss of motor function and other serious consequences.

Secondary gout symptoms are mainly characterized by hyperuricemia, with acute onset. It can be seen that there are urate crystals in urine, microscopic hematuria or gross hematuria, often accompanied by urination pain, low back pain, nausea, oliguria or anuria and other symptoms, which can lead to renal failure

For gout, whether it is primary or secondary, the harm to patients is great, so we must treat it in time, for the symptoms are not very serious, we can carry out general treatment, that is to do a good job in diet regulation, drink more water, and for acute gouty arthritis, we can take some drugs, such as severe pain, we can take colchicine, Or the choice of glucocorticoid treatment, chronic patients is mainly to control blood uric acid, so you can take some drugs to reduce uric acid.

matters needing attention

The above are some of the symptoms of gout. It is suggested that if you find some of the above symptoms in your life, you should check and make a diagnosis in time. For treatment, you can choose the appropriate therapy or medicine according to your own situation. In addition, you should pay attention to the dietary taboos. For some high purine food, it must be strictly prohibited to prevent aggravating the symptoms.