What is gout and how is it diagnosed?

What is gout? Many friends are not sure whether they have gout when they experience joint pain. Especially when the weather changes, many people think it is rheumatism. So, how do we diagnose gout?

Regarding the question of "how to diagnose gout", Professor Zhu Jianfu, a gout expert in Shanghai, told patients that timely diagnosis of gout is the key to the treatment of gout. Diagnosis based on gout symptoms is an effective way to diagnose gout. Common gout symptoms are as follows:

1. Gout symptoms often occur in elderly patients, including mental and psychological fatigue. It is worth noting that postoperative infection, trivial trauma, and a high-purine diet can also induce gout.

2. Middle-aged male patients often have symmetrical small arthritis, which mainly manifests in the toes, followed by the ankle joints, hand joints, and large joints of the wrists, knees, elbows, and feet. There is obvious swelling, heat and pain, which is so severe that movement is restricted.

3. The amount of urine increases significantly in daily life, the kidney function is seriously damaged, joint lesions occur, and uric acid stones appear in the kidneys, accompanied by persistent high uric acid levels.

4. Urinary symptoms: frequent urination, incomplete urination, nocturia, and renal insufficiency or a certain degree of urinary tract abnormality detected in general examinations.

This article mainly introduces you to "How to diagnose gout". We hope that through your understanding of the symptoms of gout, you can detect gout in time in your life and take relevant treatment methods in time to effectively relieve and control gout.