KONTAN.CO.ID – JAKARTA. Symptoms of gout are usually found in the joints. Joint pain will be felt if the amount of uric acid in the body is large. Not only one part, the symptoms of gout usually also occur in several parts of the joint at the same time.
Too much uric acid in the bloodstream can clot in body tissues. Symptoms of gout are felt when the clots build up in the joints. The joints will become inflamed and feel painful, hot, and swollen.
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Uric acid appears in the body as a result of the breakdown of several types of proteins called purines. Quoting from Medicine Net (medicinenet.com), the causes of increasing gout symptoms are genetics, obesity, diuretics, and kidney disease.
Apart from the causes of gout symptoms, there are also risk factors that cause gout to get worse. Some of the risk factors that usually occur are high blood pressure, dehydration, and the body after undergoing surgery.
Medicine Net says that medications to lower uric acid levels, such as allupurinol, can actually worsen gout symptoms. That’s because anything used to increase or decrease the amount of uric acid can cause uric acid crystals to build up in the joints.
Gout Symptoms
Medicine Net lists some of the symptoms of gout that a person usually experiences. These symptoms are pain in the joint that comes suddenly, the joint area is swollen, the appearance of a red and hot color in the painful joint area.
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Symptoms of gout usually occur in one part of the joint. The pain is not too severe depending on the inflammation that occurs. The joints affected by uric acid symptoms also become more sensitive. Swollen joints as a symptom of gout are caused by a fluid called a “joiont effusion”.
One of the most common areas of the body where gout symptoms appear is the big toe. In addition, the feet, ankles, knees, elbows, wrists and hands are other parts that can be affected as well.
If the symptoms of gout are not treated promptly, several parts of the joint can be attacked at one time. In addition, organs in the body, such as the kidneys, can also be affected by the symptoms of gout because it can become a site for uric acid buildup in the form of kidney stones.
Editor: Belladina Biananda
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