TRIBUNTORAJA.COM – Sometimes the wrist feels sore and stiff. It is necessary to watch lest you suffer from gout.
In the medical world, uric acid is commonly known as gout. This disease occurs due to arthritis caused by high levels of uric acid in the blood.
The symptoms that are often felt by sufferers are pain in the joint area, so it is often difficult to distinguish it from rheumatic pain, which is pain that causes inflammation and swelling of muscles or joints.
In addition to causing pain, gout sufferers will also experience a burning sensation and joint swelling.
Gout mostly affects men aged around 30 years and in women this disease usually attacks during the menopause phase.
This condition can be caused by heredity, injury, consumption of sugary drinks or alcohol, consumption of drugs or due to other medical conditions.
It should be noted that uric acid is said to be high when the test results show levels above 7.0 mg/dL for men and more than 6.0 mg/dL for women.
Reporting from Bone-joint, deposits of uric acid crystals in the wrist cause sufferers to feel severe pain.
Wrist pain means that a person may not be able to use the affected joint normally, even to brush their teeth or hold a cup.
Gout pain usually lasts for several days and goes away on its own, but can recur.
Gout in the wrist is a rare case compared to gout in the big toe.
However, this condition needs to be watched out for because it makes the hands painful and difficult to move.
Quoting the American Society for Surgery of the Hand (ASSH), the cause of uric acid around the wrist can be due to the effects of drugs or from diet.
For example, foods such as meat, seafood, aka seafood, and alcoholic beverages.
