What are the symptoms of gout

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In life, many people suffering from gout disease, there will be physical or language barriers, it can be seen that gout is a great harm to the human body, therefore, this article is about gout related symptoms.

What are the symptoms of gout

Symptom 1: most patients have no obvious symptoms before attack, or only fatigue, general discomfort and joint tingling. The typical symptom of the attack is that the patient will have joint pain in the late night, and the pain will continue to intensify, reaching a 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.

Symptom 2: gout attack lasts for several days to several weeks, which can be relieved by itself. Generally, there is no obvious sequelae symptoms, or local skin pigmentation, desquamation and itching are left. Later, it enters into an asymptomatic intermission period, which lasts for several months, years or more than ten years, and relapses. Most patients relapse within one year, more and more frequently, more and more joints are involved, and the duration of symptoms is longer and longer.

Symptom 3: 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 bursa, tendons, tendon sheaths and other parts around the joints. The symptoms tend to be atypical. A small number of patients without intermission, after the first onset of chronic arthritis.

matters needing attention

After understanding the symptoms of gout, we should pay more attention to the abnormal phenomenon of our body. At the same time, gout patients should pay attention to drink more soup and water to dilute the uric acid in the body.