According to previous medical data, gout often occurs in middle-aged and elderly people. It is considered to be the patent of middle-aged and elderly people. However, with the improvement of people's living standards, big fish and meat began to appear on people's tables, and gout began to attack young people. Even gout patients under the age of 20 are not uncommon.

Causes of gout

Gout is a disease caused by excessive purine intake due to improper diet, eating too many high-purine foods, and causing elevated uric acid. Gout has become a relatively common chronic disease. In mild cases, it can cause arthritis, and in severe cases, it can cause joint disability, renal dysfunction, and cardiovascular disease.

Gout should be treated in a timely and correct manner, and the disease should not be prolonged for too long. About 1/3 of patients with a longer course of disease will have renal complications, such as urate, nephropathy, renal uric acid stones, symptoms of renal failure, and severe symptoms. will cause death.

Gout is coming, feel your feet?

Gout attacks generally have no aura, and sudden single joint redness, swelling, and heat pain are common clinical manifestations of gout attacks, and foot pain indicates an acute attack of gout.

Gout usually does not have any symptoms before an acute attack, and often occurs at night or in the early morning, when patients wake up from sleep, they have found a single joint of red, swollen, hot pain, unbearable, like a knife cut, insect bite, etc., especially The pain in the thumb joint of the foot is unbearable.

Doctor: 4 kinds of abnormalities in the body, uric acid may have been elevated

【Puffy body】

Gout can cause swelling in the body. During an acute attack, gout will cause obvious redness, swelling, heat, and pain in the joints. If it is a chronic gout, it will affect the kidneys, and it is prone to renal insufficiency, resulting in facial swelling. , The edema of both lower extremities, and the edema of the ankles may gradually spread upward, and ascites or pleural effusion may occur, which will eventually lead to systemic edema.

【foam urine】

The urine of healthy people is light yellow and clear, sometimes accompanied by a small amount of foam, but if the foam in the urine does not dissipate for a long time, most of the kidney function is damaged.

When the uric acid content in the human body exceeds the standard, the detoxification function of the kidneys will be abnormal, and the function of the renal tubules to filter proteins will become sluggish, resulting in proteinuria.

【Inconvenient to walk】

Gout patients will develop gouty arthritis, which accumulates to the toes, dorsum, heels, ankles, etc. of the feet, causing obvious joint swelling and pain. At this time, patients often have symptoms of inconvenience of movement and inability to go to the ground. Some patients also develop chronic gouty arthritis due to repeated attacks of the disease.

[abnormal urination]

Patients with gout may experience abnormal urination and increased frequency of nighttime awakenings. Two-thirds of the uric acid in the body is excreted by the kidneys. Excessive blood uric acid can increase the burden of excretion by the kidneys, causing excess uric acid to accumulate in the kidneys, easily forming kidney stones, leading to urinary tract infections, causing dysuria, abnormal urination and other symptoms.