How To Cure Rheumatoid Arthritis Permanently?
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Gout is a clinical manifestation of inflammatory arthritis that produces pain and swelling in different joints in the body. The symptoms occur in flares that last a week or two before disappearing.
Gout symptoms frequently start in the big toe (metatarsophalangeal joint) or a lower part of the leg. Gout develops when serum uric acid levels are high causing needle-shaped crystals to grow in and around the joints. As a result, the joint becomes inflamed and arthritic.
Symptoms of the affected joints are as follows
These symptoms alternate between sudden flare and remission. Generally, symptoms of the joints are unilateral, which usually affects one joint.
Gout is managed both by medication and lifestyle modification.
The progression of gout is separated into four phases:
Gout can be prevented by following some management protocols:
After remission from arthritic pain, uric acid lowering drugs should be taken and secondary causes of hyperuricemia must be addressed.
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Gouty Arthritis
An acute gout episode normally disappears in five to seven days without any clinical attention. However, 60% of patients experience a recurrence within a year. Gout patients are more likely to develop other metabolic diseases, such as hypertension and diabetes. Along with metabolic syndromes, renal disease and cardiovascular disease increases mortality.
If not treated and allowed to progress naturally, gout can lead to erosion and destruction of the affected joint. It may cause the formation of urate crystal deposits under the skin.
Uric acid accumulates and crystalizes in an aberrant purine metabolism causing gout. The crystal in monosodium urate form precipitates creating deposits (tophi) in joints, tendons, and surrounding tissues. Crystal protected by proteinaceous sheath prevents contact with cells and thereby prevents inflammation. Minor joint trauma, medical or surgical stress, or sudden fluctuations in uric acid levels might cause naked crystals to burst out of protein-protected tophi. They cause a local immune-mediated inflammatory response causing major symptoms of gout, such as pain, erythema, and swelling.
Without treatment, gout can lead to several complications as follows
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