Signs and Symptoms of Gout

Signs and Symptoms of Gout

Patients with gout are usually characterized by frequent experience tingling, aching pain or a sudden joint pain. Usually it attacks one joint and more of the initial attack began in the joints of the foot.

Most of the first attack occurred on the evening before the morning. Pain can also occur on the ankles, knees, fingers or other joints. Also other signs and symptoms of the affected joint is uric acid visible swelling, redness, heat and pain was incredible.

Causes of Uric Acid
Increased levels of uric acid in the blood becomes high suddenly is one of the main causes of uric acid. This usually occurs after eating foods containing high levels of uric acid. Therefore, gout arthritis is characterized by recurrent attacks of arthritis (joint inflammation) is an acute, sometimes accompanied by the formation of large crystals of sodium urate tophus called, deformity (damage) in krosnis joints and injury to the kidney

Gout or gouty arthritis is often experienced by many people, both young, especially the elderly men and women. Uric acid is a disease characterized by recurrent pain in joints because of the deposition of monosodium urate crystals due to high levels of uric acid in the blood (hiperurikimia)
Uric acid is a purine metabolic waste substances from the food consumed. It also includes a byproduct from the breakdown of cells in the blood. whereas purine substance was found in any food that comes from living bodies.

In other words, in the living body of the presence of purines. because human beings eat it, then move to the purine substances in the body man. Purine also resulted from the destruction of body cells which occur normally or because of certain diseases.

Normally, uric acid will be released in the body through the stool (feces) and urine. However, because the kidneys are unable to remove uric acid that is then led to increased levels in the body. Excess uric acid which will then accumulate in joints, causing pain or swelling.