What Is A Gout Attack?

In the midst of a quiet cold night when you sleep comfortably suddenly awakened with severe pain in the toe of his foot. Turning on the light, who are surprised by the big toe swollen Red. The pain is so intense that you mourn for your life when you're crawling to the kitchen to find the murderer of pain. Drop It! These are unannounced and tortured for days for his piety.

What is gout? It is a form of arthritis that attacks the joints in the body, usually begins in the joints of the lower body, like the big toe joint of the foot and ankle. It is a form of autoimmune reaction in which white blood cells in the joint edge trying to get rid of the foreign substance known to urate crystals.


The formation of urate crystals in joints is the result of prolonged exposure to high uric acid in the body. The problem with high levels of uric acid or hyperuricemia is the result of an unhealthy diet and lifestyle. People who are at high risk of hyperuricaemia are those who enjoy high-protein diet high fleshy, drink beer instead of water, and those who live very stressful lives and rarely of exercise.


Most people do not know they actually arthritis when they get their first crisis. The normally tend to think that pain is the result of accidentally blow something and tendon sprains or broken bones. Most of them tend to rub on swollen big toe, hopes to help reduce pain and inflammation to disappear.


Wrong! Not only rub do nothing good for reducing pain, it aggravates the situation. As the person rubbing the inflamed, it is actually more stirring deposit urate crystals that will intensify inflammation and pain. Do not rub your big toe gout!


So, what you should do a scene? Try to put your feet in warm water for 10-15 minutes to improve the flow of blood to dismantle some of urate crystals. If the pain is so unbearable, and you must work in the coming days, you really need to go to the doctor and get drugs such as colchicine for gout, and some painkillers.


You should know how unhealthy your diet in the past many years before asking what is the drop, the problem really starts from what you put in your mouth in recent years.