Symptoms of acute gout

summary

The most fundamental cause of gout is the abnormal metabolism of purine, which leads to the increase of uric acid synthesis. In addition, if the clearance rate of uric acid by renal function is decreased for some reasons, the level of uric acid will eventually rise, which will lead to gout. About the symptoms of acute gout, let me tell you.

Symptoms of acute gout

If patients with acute gout show joint inflammation, the attack time is mostly in the middle of the night, mainly involving the patient's thumb joint, or involving the patient's wrist, elbow joint, knee joint and other parts, when the attack, these diseased parts are red and swollen, and the activity is limited.

After the onset of acute gout, the symptoms are generally relieved in about 1 to 2 weeks. The onset of the patient's condition is often due to drinking, or suddenly eating food containing a lot of purine, or because of surgery and joint trauma. Of course, acute gout attack can also be caused by acute infection and consumption of serzine diuretics.

Specifically, the typical symptom of acute gout is redness, heat, pain and swelling. Attack when the patient can wake up from sleep, pain is quite severe. It should be noted that gout can cause kidney damage, such as gouty nephropathy or acute obstructive nephropathy.

matters needing attention

Generally speaking, if you are accidentally injured or eat high purine food, it will lead to an acute attack of gout. Therefore, to avoid gout attack, you must pay attention to the intake of purine in your diet.