Early symptoms of gout

Update Date: 2024-07-23 Source: Network

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In clinic, the occurrence of gout is closely related to the decrease of purine metabolism and the decrease of uric acid excretion in the patients. The incidence rate of gout is increasing year by year. So we should have a thorough understanding of what symptoms of gout can be found in the early stage of gout. What's the picture of gout's initial symptoms like? Here are three salient features of gout in its early stage.

Early symptoms of gout

1. Gouty arthritis. Gout patients in the early stage of onset, often appear lower limb joint pain symptoms, pain often involves the patient's first metatarsophalangeal joint, the typical symptom is in the late night onset, patients can consciously sick parts have tearing pain or biting pain symptoms, the affected joint parts often appear swelling, hot pain and a series of uncomfortable symptoms.

2. Joint swelling and pain. In the early stage of gout onset, patients will have persistent symptoms of joint swelling and pain. Patients can feel pain when pressing the diseased joint parts. Some patients even have joint deformation. At the same time, the joint function of patients will also appear obstacles. At the same time, the toes, fingers and other parts of patients will also be involved.

3. Uric acid is abnormal. When gout disease occurs, the level of serum uric acid of patients will continue to fluctuate. When uric acid rises to a certain extent, gouty arthritis will be triggered. When it develops to affect renal disease, patients will have occasional proteinuria symptoms. With the further aggravation of the disease, there will be persistent proteinuria, If the patients don't get treatment as early as possible, we can't rule out the possibility of renal failure or uremia.

matters needing attention

In the above, we introduced the symptoms of gout through the pictures of gout. We all know that when gout appears, there are three main characteristics. Of course, the symptoms of gout are more complex, and gout disease is easy to be confused with other bone and joint disease symptoms, so we must not treat it blindly on the premise of undiagnosed gout.