Can not get out because your feet pain? Do your joints seem to grow as Ginger? Moves were very worried about you? You may have arthritis. Do you always eat legumes and beans, and after eating, you can not even stretch your fingers? You may be suffering from arthritis.
What is gout?
Arthritis is a disease caused by a congenital disorder of uric acid metabolism. Uric acid is a waste product found in urine and blood of the chemical processes in the body. In case of gout, monosodium urate or more popularly known as uric acid crystals are deposited on the articular cartilage, tendons and surrounding tissues. The crystal deposits are due to the increased concentration of uric acid in the blood.
Arthritis is characterized by inflammation of the tissues that could also break through the skin. That's why people who suffer from gout sometimes have sinuses discharging a material white as chalk. In addition, arthritis is also known as metabolic arthritis.
Gout Symptoms
Gout has visible symptoms. People with gout usually suffer from swelling and pain in joints especially in hands nd feet. The presence of a painful, sudden, unexpected burning pain, redness of the skin in those areas, heat and stiffness in the joints are also heard. Sometimes patients are too sick with a fever. Crystals in the joints and inflammation of the tissues around the joints, causing pain. These tissues also cause the skin to become swollen, tender and sore. Many patients, because of extreme pain, not even allowed to touch other people in the affected areas.
How gout attacks?
Gout usually attacks the upper and lower extremities, especially when these body parts, lack of exercise. Lack of exercise can cause crystals to be easily deposited because the joints are at rest, and the blood flowing is also a steady stream. However, almost 75 percent of first attacks of gout are recorded in the big toe. But outside it, the drop is not limited to the toe, it can also attack other joints of the feet and hands as at the ankle, heel, foot, knee, wrist, elbow, fingers and back. Arthritis of the spine often causes back pain and difficulty moving because the spine becomes rigid. Poor circulation in fingers due to previous injuries can also cause gout.
Because the kidneys are responsible for filtering the blood, an error in the kidneys can also lead to arthritis because of high levels of uric acid that the system is unable to eradicate them.
Men aged between 40 and 50 are more likely to develop gout. Protein-rich foods often cause high levels of uric acid. Alcohol can also affect uric acid levels can cause acute attacks of gout. Furthermore, the development of gout could also be the result of hereditary factors.
The diagnosis of gout
People with high levels of uric acid in the blood could also develop gout, provided that uric acid is within the normal range. However, when a person suspects that is already developing gout, the uric acid test should be administered after the attack has subsided. Thanks to the CBC, uric acid in the blood is also determined. Other tests include electrolytes, renal function and erythrocyte sedimentation rate. Early diagnosis of gout could prevent the patient develops severe arthritis.
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