The actual problem for many.
Pain and swelling of the joints many people associated with arthritis, inflammatory disease. However, the attack of severe pain in the joints, inflammation and destructive changes in tissues caused not only infection, trauma, age-related changes or heredity. Such diseases as gout, can ruin the quality of life of healthy and successful person. Let us understand why.
What is gout and who is at risk of Contracting this disease
Gout is a metabolic purine bases and the body starts to accumulate uric acid. Its salts – urate, are deposited gradually in various tissues, including the joints. In the end, the joint (mainly affects the metatarsophalangeal joints of the big toe) starts to hurt and become inflamed to such a degree that the person may not normally be on the foot.
The hereditary factor in the development of gout plays a role. However, that predisposition has passed the disease required a number of contributing factors. Is overweight and obesity, sedentary lifestyle, misuse of alcohol and smoked, salted, meat products. According to Medkov, “classic” patient with gout is a middle-aged man who likes to eat well, a lot nervous and used to relieve stress with alcohol. According to medical statistics, women suffer from gout less often than men.
How to detect gout and dangerous than the disease
Gout affects the joints, as already mentioned mainly on the legs and kidneys. May develop a disease not only the joints of the big toe, and hit the ankles, elbow, knee, interphalangeal joints of the hands and even sternal-costal and vertebral joints. With the development of gout also suffer from kidney, because they help to free the body from uric acid. About 30% of people with gout urolithiasis ill and suffering from renal colic. The urate crystals also are deposited in the tubules and pelvis of the kidneys, causing the development of inflammatory processes in the kidneys and lead to chronic renal failure.
In addition to the nightly bouts of severe pain in the affected joint, it swells, becomes blue-purple color, becomes too sensitive. After a couple of days the sharp pain goes away and may come back in six months or even several years. This is the insidious disease, because man goes to the doctor, and the disease meanwhile progresses. Also gout can be suspected by small, dense, painless nodules – tophi. This uric acid crystals that are deposited in the tissues. Often, tophi appear on the auricles, in the areas of the elbow, on the feet, and hands.
Treatment and prevention of gout
Because the symptoms of gout and arthritis similar, when the above mentioned symptoms, you can refer to a rheumatologist or traumatologist-orthopedist. If the kidney damage the necessary consultation of the nephrologist. If the disease is diagnosed and the condition is quite running, to cure the disease is impossible to control the disease the anti-inflammatory drugs, medicines that promote the excretion of uric acid, physical therapy, diet, avoiding alcohol, and changing lifestyles.
To prevent the development or worsening of gout, it is important to stick to a diet: can’t eat too many meat products, fish, offal, nourishing broths, smoked products, canned food. You should limit coffee, tea, chocolate, and alcohol (especially beer) are generally excluded. Gout recommended the following products:
milk and dairy products
eggs
chicken
vegetables
cereals
nuts
mineral water is better than alkaline type, juice from berries and citrus.
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