Causes and symptoms of gout?

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With the development of society, people's living standard is higher and higher, gout patients are increasing day by day, and is increasingly younger. Gout is a disease caused by the dysfunction of metabolic system, which is marked by the increase of uric acid. In recent years, with the improvement of quality of life, the number and incidence rate of gout patients have been increasing gradually. Especially for the middle-aged and elderly, it is a common metabolic disease. Causes and symptoms of gout? Here are some suggestions from gout experts:

Causes and symptoms of gout?

Asymptomatic stage: as the name suggests, in this stage, patients can hardly have any physical discomfort, and the only indicator to determine whether they have gout is the continuous or fluctuating increase of uric acid content in the blood.

Acute arthritis stage: patients often wake up in the middle of the night because of redness, swelling, heat and pain in toes, ankles, knees, wrists, fingers and elbows. And patients will find that the normal function of these joints has obvious obstacles. When you measure your body temperature, you'll find an increase in temperature.

Gout stone and chronic arthritis stage: swelling, stiffness and deformity will appear in the joints, just like stones, asymmetric and inconsistent in size. It is more common in the ear contour, toes, fingers and other places.

matters needing attention

1. Eat more vegetables, eat less wine: vegetables needless to say, because vegetables are essential in life, and gout patients should eat more vegetables, which is conducive to reducing purine intake, increasing vitamin C, increasing cellulose. 2. Gout patients should also eat less and drink less (preferably avoid alcohol) to control calorie intake, limit weight, lose weight and reduce fat. Eat more alkaline food, eat less acidic food: we all know that gout patients themselves have purine metabolism disorders, uric acid abnormalities. 3. If you eat too much bread, rice, meat and other acidic food, it will aggravate the disease. It's not good for recovery. And eat more fruits, vegetables, almonds and other alkaline food, can help supplement potassium, sodium, chloride ion, maintain acid-base balance. These are gout prevention methods.