Gout - Are You at Risk?

I remember a conversation which i heard during my childhood among my family members and their friends. They will be discussing about his big toe and they also say that he couldn’t even tolerate the weight of a paper on top of it.

While I didn’t understand the disease at all, I can remember being confused and a little frightened about a medical condition that could hurt so much.

The first place the gout forms will be in joint below the big toe. This is known as rich man medical condition. Gout is a kind of arthritis that appears all of a sudden.

Gout’s symptoms are as follows red, tender, swollen and hot joints, ligaments and tendons of the toes, feet, hands, ankles and knees. Gout gives pain continuously for many hours, sometime even up to 24 hours.

Typically, people are in discomfort from a gout attack for several days to several weeks after the attack. After the initial attack, following attacks are typically seen more frequently, with more intense pain and involving more joints than the first.

In rare phenomenon very little content of uric acid will also create the same symptoms. High content of uric acid in the blood is the reason for gout. Crystals that are sharp starts depositing in joints, ligaments and tendons.

Men typically report symptoms of gout more often than women and tend to suffer attacks of gout at a younger age. Women tend to report the condition with much greater frequency after menopause.

What puts one at risk for gout? Sometimes (less than 15%) of cases are due to lifestyle. Alcohol consumption can impair the kidney’s ability to remove excess uric acid. Additionally, eating organ meat (especially red meat) and seafood can contribute to higher levels of uric acid.

Gout can also be brought on by other medical conditions, the main one being high blood pressure, or hypertension. Atherosclerosis (narrowing of the arteries) and hyperlipidemia (high amounts of fat and cholesterol in the blood) and diabetes can also contribute to gout.

Alternatively obesity also contributes to high blood pressure and diabetes. Gout is also a result of obesity and sedentary lifestyle.

Medications are generally prescribed for the first attack and may be necessary to prevent follow-up attacks. Health and lifestyle changes are generally recommended, especially if one is to try to forgo medicine and its accompanying side effects.

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