International Hopital Shanghai Sky Clinic:The Agony Of Gout

Pain pain pain… If you ever experience gout, you would be in constant pain and the pain is up to your nerve every waking moment by the lightest touch of the affected area.

Gout Is A Rich Man’s Disease!

Gout is the oldest known rheumatic disease resulting from deposition of uric acid crystals (monosodium urate) in tissues and fluids within the body. This process is caused by an overproduction or under excretion of uric acid. It is common among the loyalty, rich and famous in ancient time. Hence, it is subsequently referred as “Rich Man’s Disease”.
Before the era of modern dietary, not many would have suffer the fate of gout. In the modern era, rich lifestyle causes major change in our intake of quality of our food which create many opportunities for good food and drinks, these are signs of over-nutrition. Such dietary change in lifestyle results in huge increase in the number of gout occurrence. Once over-indulge in rich food such as seafood, meat and alcohol, modern dwellers tend to bear the risk from an attack of gout.    

Beside bad dietary habits bring the main cause of gout, there are four groups of people which are considered high risk in getting gout.

1. Elderly, in regardless of male and female
2. Obese male about 30 years old OR female who have stopped menstruation.
3. Type 2 Diabetes Patients
4. Patients with high blood pressure and arteriosclerosis (coronary artery disease and Cerebral Vascular Disease)

Beware the Danger of Gout!

What are the health danger of getting gout? Gout has the habit of developing overnight or early morning, where sufferers can develop sudden burning pain, stiffness and swelling in a joint usually at neither one of their big toe. You can also get gout attacks in your ankle or knees or other joints. The attacks can last a few days or several weeks before the pain goes away. Usually another attack may happens within months from the first one. For some untreated cases, acute gouty arthritis can occur where sufferers experience huge swollen joint, deformation of joint and others complications. Here are some complication that may develop from gout:

1. Hyperuricemia
2. Gouty Arthritis
3. Accompanying Hypertension, Hyperlipemia, Coronary disease, diabetes, Kidney Stone etc.
4. Pathological gout nephropathy developing into uremic renal failure
5. Cardiac disease turning into hardening of arteries or coronary heart disease
   

The Remedy To Your Gout Problem

 

Unhealthy lifestyle is one of main cause of gout. Upon having gout, the patient must abide to a routine and discipline healthy lifestyle. A good disciplined habit of daily routine can provide a huge boost to recovering from gout.
                      

1. Quit Smoking and Drinking

 

Gout sufferers must forgo all unhealthy habits of smoking and drinking altogether. Alcohol beverages contains high purine level that causes an increase of urine acid. On the hand, drinking alcohol will generate high level of lactic acid in our body which in turn, decrease the ability of your liver to rid your level of urine acid.

 2. Consistent Daily Routine

Gout sufferers are advice to have a regular and consistent time to sleep and wake up, eat and exercise. Such a routine of sufficient rest will enhance the body’s ability to recharge and repair itself. Thereby, gout can be cured much quicker.

3. Moderation in the Intake of Food

 

Gout patients must ensure their daily quantity of food intake at each meal are consistent everyday. Do not try to suddenly decrease or increase the quantity of consumption without the consideration of the amount of energy you need to burn a day. Eat with moderation in view of your required calories and energy required in each working day. With a disciplined control on the amount of food intake, a consistent diet will guarantee the treatment of gout could yield better outcome. Hence, be able to bring the level of urine acid to a more acceptable level.
                            

1. Hygiene

 

Beside above mentioned routine, gout patients should observe and practice a good personal hygiene standard. The adverse effect is that gout sufferers normally have long term abnormal metabolism rate which results in lower immune system and hence are more vulnerable to bacterial or germs attacks. Once suffered in the hands of gout, the recovery period tends to be longer and in some cases, the symptom could worsen and relapse may reoccur more frequently. Therefore, keeping bad bacterial at bay through practice of good personal hygiene is another defensive weapon to be deploy against gout.

 

Last but not least, in order to get desirable positive result in treating gout, the patient must maintain a healthy state of mind and body. Sufferers are encourage to have active lifestyle and social activities, so to encourage their value of self-existence and build up the confident to live healthily. In all, gout is a treatable disease and is controllable by one’s discipline and mindset.

The above article serves only as a reference. Kindly refer to your medical professions for complete consultation and treatment.