Symptoms of gout arthralgia

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What are the symptoms of gout? Gout patients are mainly middle-aged and elderly male friends. Women may have gout individually after menopause. In addition, obese people with metabolic diseases such as hypertension and diabetes are more likely to have gout. The symptoms of gout attack are mainly as follows:

Symptoms of gout arthralgia

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

First, you should continue to adhere to the above diet, quit smoking, stop drinking and drink more water. Second, go to the professional gout diagnosis and treatment base to check and see where the disease has developed. Then, combined with the expert's opinions, make targeted treatment. After these two steps, I believe that your condition should be basically OK, so, Acute gouty arthritis is not terrible, got gout is terrible, we must do a good job in the prevention and timely treatment of acute gouty arthritis! At present, Shanghai has the most professional treatment base!