Gout worsening performance 1: increased frequency of attacks

Some gout patients do not have an attack for a long time, so they relax their vigilance, eat and drink, resulting in the body's blood uric acid levels continue to rise, and ultimately lead to more and more frequent gout attacks. In the past, there may be one attack in a few years, but if it slowly becomes a few attacks a year, or even a few attacks a month, then it really should be taken seriously.

Frequent attacks of gout or each attack for a long time, you have to go to the hospital in time to receive formal treatment, even if this time to rely on diet to reduce uric acid, may have been too late. If the blood uric acid level has not come down, there may be permanent damage to the joints.

Gout worsening manifestation 2: the emergence of gout stone

The most fundamental problem of gout is hyperuricemia, when the uric acid level in our blood is high, the uric acid will be precipitated from the blood to form urate crystals, which will be deposited in various joints of the body.

If the uric acid is not properly controlled for a long period of time, the more urate crystals are deposited, the more they will turn into gout stones. When the number of gout stones in the body is increasing, it is time to consider whether to surgically remove them.

Gout worsening performance 3: gout metastasis

Originally, gout is only in the big toe place began to develop, but after a few years, slowly transferred to the ankle joints, knee joints, fingers and other parts of the body, this time shows that the gout condition has worsened. This situation is called "metastatic gout" in medicine, is a more serious form of gout, if not controlled, then it will seriously affect the patient's quality of life.

Gout worsening manifestation 4: kidney lesions

Many metabolic wastes in our body are excreted by the kidneys, and uric acid is one of them. There are two ways to excrete uric acid, one is intestinal excretion and the other is kidney excretion. The intestinal excretion of uric acid is few and far between, and most of it is still excreted by the kidneys.

So once the uric acid content is too much, it will cause a certain burden to the kidneys, and in the long run, the kidneys will be damaged, and in serious cases, there will be uremia or even death. If the body of the above four symptoms, must be timely medical treatment, to avoid the delay caused by the deterioration of the condition, then it is too late to regret.

2, the treatment of gout

Gout patients on the very difficult to completely cure, but when the ventilation attack, we can choose what methods to relieve it?

2.1, ice packs for pain

Can reduce the pain, but do not take the ice directly on the skin, the best and the method is to take the frozen ice packs to compress.

If there is no ice inside the home, it is placed in the lower freezer inside the freezer, there is a way to put a wet towel in the freezer for 10 minutes is also possible, directly on the location of the pain can be, once a 5-minute good, time can not be too long.

2.2, drug relief

If the pain is really unbearable, you can first use some anti-inflammatory pain medication for rapid anti-inflammatory and pain, but must be under the guidance of a professional physician in the appropriate amount of use, do not unauthorized use of drugs.

2.3, before going to bed should use warm water to soak your feet

Every day to soak for about 30 minutes, soak until the body slightly sweating, so that you can relieve gout hair do pain.

In fact, the best way for gout patients to relieve pain is to soak their feet once a day at night, each time for no more than half an hour, soaking the feet is to stimulate the cells of the whole body to move and stimulate the blood circulation, so that the location of the pain of blood circulation, thus reducing the degree of pain.