Gout
Gout is a disease that we may have heard about from television or from the Internet. Fortunately, it is a disease that has a cure, and gout is a joint disease, causing severe pain. It is a complex arthritis disease where the patient feels redness accompanied by severe pain The men are more likely to get gout, and women may get it when the menstrual cycle stops.
Symptoms of gout
- Feeling of severe pain in the joints. In particular, the patient feels the pain in the big finger of the foot, although gout may occur in the knee, ankle joint, foot, or hand joints, or may occur in the wrists. These pains last for a long time from 12 to 24 hours throughout the day.
- Lack of comfort and discomfort: The patient suffers from movement, the greater the movement of pain, found in non-action pain-free rest.
- Inflammation of the affected joints and redness, and the more delayed the patient to see the doctor draws joints and increased pain.
Causes of gout
- High level of alerwick acid in the blood.
- Obesity in the person.
- Drinking alcohol a lot, eating meat heavily and fish in large quantities cause gout.
Complications of serious gout
- Eating foods and the lifestyle of the patient may contribute to increased disease.
- Some wadis, such as pressure medications, cholesterol drugs contribute to the increase of the disease in the person, and even high cholesterol in the blood has an effect in worsening the disease.
- The cause of gout may be genetic.
- Gout may cause stones in the body, which spread in joints and cause puffiness in them.
- Uric acid is not immediately treated; it causes stones in the kidneys, or causes kidney failure.
Treatment of gout
- Go to the doctor, and after several analyzes he asks on the basis of which builds the treatment.
- Description of inflammation and redness.
- Colchicine, which relieves the pain of gout.
- (Drugs that prevent the production of uric acid in the body).
- (Taking drugs that contribute to uric acid in the body).
- Decaffeinated coffee reduces the proportion of uric acid in the body.
- Take vitamin C.
- Eat cherry; which reduces uric acid in the blood.
- Reduce meat and fish intake.