How to Treat Gout? What Are the Symptoms?

Gout is a common disease in daily life, and there are many reasons that can lead to gout, including genetic factors, excessive mental stress, and long-term anxiety, which may also induce gout. The harm to patients is relatively large, and in severe cases, it may also have adverse effects on liver and kidney function. It is necessary to treat gout in time after its occurrence. Then how to treat gout? What are the symptoms? Let's take a look.

Currently, Western medicine can only treat the symptoms of gout, not the root cause. Because long-term use of drugs for treating acute gout, such as colchicine, and uric acid-lowering drugs such as allopurinol, benzbromarone, and febuxostat, can have significant effects on liver and kidney function. Therefore, some patients may experience abnormal liver and kidney function after taking Western medicine. The best treatment method is dietary control, exercise therapy, drinking more water, and most importantly, traditional Chinese medicine conditioning. Many experts believe that traditional Chinese medicine is the only way out for the treatment of gout, and the earlier treatment and prevention are better. Now, it is possible to make tea preparations of traditional Chinese medicine, which is very convenient to drink regularly, and the taste is not bitter, so most patients can accept it.

1. Asymptomatic period: As the name suggests, patients have almost no physical discomfort during this stage. The only indicator that can determine they have gout is the persistent or fluctuating increase of uric acid in the blood.

2. Acute arthritis period: Patients often wake up in the middle of the night due to symptoms of redness, swelling, heat, and pain in the toes, ankles, knees, wrists, fingers, elbows, and other joints. They may also find that the normal functions of these joints are significantly impaired. When measuring their temperature, they may find that it is higher than usual.

3. Tophi and chronic arthritis period: The joints affected by gout may become swollen, stiff, and deformed, resembling stones, and they may be asymmetric and vary in size. These deformities are most commonly seen in the ears, toes, and fingers.

4. Renal lesions: More than 90% of gout patients have renal lesions. In the early stages, they may have occasional proteinuria. As the condition worsens, it may progress to persistent proteinuria, increased frequency of nocturnal urination, and eventually renal insufficiency or even death due to renal failure. About 20% of gout patients may develop uric acid-related urinary stones. If not treated in time, repeated stone formation and damage may lead to infection and nephritis, further damaging the kidneys.