Do You Ever Wonder If You Have Gout?
Families often share traits, everyone in a family will have the same color hair or the same color eyes or they will all be very tall. Gout is another thing that gets passed from parent to child, especially male children. So if you have gout then you owe it to your children to start them on the path to avoid developing it themselves.
Uric acid is a process involving the breakdown of purines that are present in the foods that we eat. The kidneys failure to process uric acid can lead to gout attacks. These attacks are characterized by painful arthritis like symptoms. In severe cases, uric acid build up can lead to occurrence of kidney stones, and kidney failure in worst cases.
In milder cases, the person may only develop a condition called hyperucemia, a condition characterized by elevated levels of uric acid in the blood. Such a condition may not develop into arthritis or other kidney problems.
The use of the term "gout" has been commonly applied to the episode of painful arthritis like attacks. A more specific term to these attacks is "gouty arthritis". It is characterized by sudden severe painful episode appearing as inflammation of the affected joint.
Gout usually attacks men over the age of 21, this may be partly due to the increased alcohol intake that starts after than age. Although middle age and later is when most men will start to suffer with gout, most likely due to the increase in obesity and the fact that people tend to stop watching what they eat after a certain age.
Elevated uric acid in your blood doesn't automatically equal gout attacks, in fact Dr's have not been able to link the two unequivocally, it is however definitely a warning point. If you have pains in your toe joints, inflammation and swelling and then a blood test finds elevated uric acid then it is safe to say that you probably have gout. - 17273
Uric acid is a process involving the breakdown of purines that are present in the foods that we eat. The kidneys failure to process uric acid can lead to gout attacks. These attacks are characterized by painful arthritis like symptoms. In severe cases, uric acid build up can lead to occurrence of kidney stones, and kidney failure in worst cases.
In milder cases, the person may only develop a condition called hyperucemia, a condition characterized by elevated levels of uric acid in the blood. Such a condition may not develop into arthritis or other kidney problems.
The use of the term "gout" has been commonly applied to the episode of painful arthritis like attacks. A more specific term to these attacks is "gouty arthritis". It is characterized by sudden severe painful episode appearing as inflammation of the affected joint.
Gout usually attacks men over the age of 21, this may be partly due to the increased alcohol intake that starts after than age. Although middle age and later is when most men will start to suffer with gout, most likely due to the increase in obesity and the fact that people tend to stop watching what they eat after a certain age.
Elevated uric acid in your blood doesn't automatically equal gout attacks, in fact Dr's have not been able to link the two unequivocally, it is however definitely a warning point. If you have pains in your toe joints, inflammation and swelling and then a blood test finds elevated uric acid then it is safe to say that you probably have gout. - 17273
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Ever wonder what the causes of gout? If you knew the causes are then you can try to avoid them and prevent yourself getting gout or at least reduce the duration of your gout episodes.
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