Gout Treatment and Symptoms
72Gout - metabolic disorder characterized by metabolic disorders, the imbalance of minerals and salts in the body due to which the accumulation of large amounts of uric acid.
Another Garrote in 1860 gave a description of the disease. And the first mention of it dates back to the era of Hippocrates.
The essence of the disease gout is that in the blood increases to the maximum limits the amount of ammonia. He has had a negative effect on the central nervous system. The situation is aggravated also violations of functionality of liver and kidney function: they do not form in the required amount of urea.
Gout Symptoms
Since ammonia is toxic and then the impact it has on the central nervous system, manifested in the confusion, severe over excitation, drowsy state. Severe form of the disease sometimes leads to gout coma, seizures often occur, and then die.
Gout salt of uric acid accumulates in joints, tendons, cartilage tissue. This leads to inflammatory processes. The main symptom that distinguishes gout is severe pain in the joint. If the joint to bend or put pressure on him, the pain will be even greater. If the disease continues to evolve for several years, the main characteristic of the disease can be considered as the presence of topi, that is, nodes are yellow with a high content of urate.
Gout is classified into many different forms. Depending on one form or another there are different clinical pictures.
1. An acute attack:
• Usually begins at night
• Weakness in the body
• Headaches
• High temperature - about 39 degrees.
• Pain in the thumb of the foot, accompanied by redness of the skin, joint function violated.
• The patient cannot move
2. Sub-acute form:
• A small pain in the thumb of the foot, sometimes there are exudate manifestations.
• If a young man that can be observed ¸ oligo arthritis, which covers medium and large joints.
3. Rheumatoid gout:
• lesions are small joints of the hands.
• If the seizure lasts long enough, diagnosed oligo arthritis.
4. Chronic gout:
• Monochromatic may be overwhelmed by all the joints.
• The affected joint is characterized by an inflammatory process.
• The patient's condition can be described as close to a fever.
• Increased erythrocyte sedimentation rate.
Diagnosis.
To diagnose the disease gout, you need to do the analysis, which shows the level of uric acid in the blood. In the blood can be clearly seen under a microscope - acid is in the form of diamond and diamond.
Necessary to conduct a full examination of kidney, heart, blood vessels and glands of the endocrine system. All this is necessary in order to establish these or other metabolic disorders.
In the case of gout associated with arthritis, it necessarily need to do X-rays.
Significantly, these data can be obtained only after five years of the disease.
Gout Treatment
For treatment of gout should be treated comprehensively. All procedures are intended to cleanse the body. To do this, arrange fasting days. It should also give you the exercise. You can use myostimulation, thermotherapy, herbal medicine and acupuncture. If there is an acute form of gout, doctors recommending a spa treatment, which is intended to recover all body systems, as well as to eliminate all possible causes of gout. To maintain health, is no cure for gout, herbal medicine must pass the course, taking natural medications, a healthy and active lifestyle. You can also stick to any diet and monitor weight of his body.
