According to data, the prevalence of gout is between 0.3‰-0.4‰, and the incidence of hyperuricemia in the early disease of gout accounts for about 10%. The occurrence of gout requires timely treatment, otherwise it will cause damage to the kidneys, resulting in uremia .
The essence of gout is an increase in blood uric acid caused by abnormal purine metabolism in the body. Fortunately, most people have hyperuricemia and will not develop into gout, but this is only a possibility. With the increase of blood uric acid , it may develop into gout in the future. Because of the increase in blood uric acid concentration, blood uric acid will form urate crystals and deposit in the human joints, kidneys and other places, causing an inflammatory reaction, that is, the symptoms of pain in gout patients. In fact, gout usually also has high-risk factors such as hypertension , diabetes , dyslipidemia , coronary heart disease , cerebral infarction , etc.; long-term gout can cause chronic arthritis, thereby causing dysfunction; kidney stones and uricidal nephropathy have a great impact on renal function, and in severe cases, it may lead to renal failure.
At present, many patients have some misunderstandings about the treatment of gout. Some patients think that the joints are painful, so they take medicine. If they don’t have pain, they don’t need to take medicine; if they get pain, they don’t have to treat it, and if they don’t have pain, they don’t need to treat it. If the treatment is good and bad, gout recurs and taking painkillers frequently will cause damage to the liver, kidneys, and gastrointestinal bleeding, and even cause gastric bleeding. In addition, people with hyperuricemia will develop urinary tract stones even without gout, which is more than 20 times that of normal people. In patients with hyperuricemia, 20% to 40% of hyperuricemia develop into uric nephropathy.
Therefore, gout is not a disease that only comes to treat pain, and early prevention is more important than later treatment.
doctor introduction: Rheumatism and immunization expert Zhang Zhuo is a master of medicine from Yunnan College of Traditional Chinese Medicine. He is currently working in Hubei Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine - Chinese medicine internal medicine for more than 20 years. In the clinical and scientific research of traditional Chinese medicine, he has rich experience in diagnosis and treatment of high uric acid and recurrent gout attacks. For more than 20 years, he has been committed to the source treatment and basic research of high uric acid and gout. He is good at treating chronic gout, gout stone , rheumatoid arthritis , rheumatoid arthritis and other immunometabolic diseases from the source.
