Do you know 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.
Not everyone with increased levels of uric acid in their blood stream will develop gout, but if you find your blood contains eleveated levels then it is a good reason to start taking precautions to reduce it. At it's worst increased uric acid can lead to kidney stones and even kidney failure, as well as gout.
Uric acid that isn't cleaned out from your system will become crystals and these crystals move around your body until they stop somewhere. Uric acid crystals often stop in joints, in fact they most often stop in the joint of the big toe. The crystals cause inflamation when they are enveloped in white blood cells, this is part of your bodys defences. While trying to protect your body, your white cells are actually helping to cause you the intense pain that is gout.
The inflammation of the joint is hastened by the occurrence of crystallized uric acid deposits in the person's joints. These crystallized uric acids may be found in joint or synovial fluid and joint or synovial lining. Intense inflammation develops when white blood cells envelops the uric acid crystals as a defense mechanism. This action causes the release chemicals that results in inflammation. The person will experience severe pain, redness and heat in the area afflicted.
In the United States, there are approximately a million people who have the disease. It is more prevalent in men than women. In the males, the most at risk are those after puberty and menopausal stage in women. Elevated levels of uric acid in the blood or hyperuricemia in medical term, may point to a heightened risk of gout development but, medical studies has yet to uncover the relationship of hyperuricemia and gout. It is known however that many of those who have hyperuricemia will not necessarily succumb to development of gout. In contrast, there are many who have experienced gout attacks actually have normal to low uric acid levels. - 17274
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.
Not everyone with increased levels of uric acid in their blood stream will develop gout, but if you find your blood contains eleveated levels then it is a good reason to start taking precautions to reduce it. At it's worst increased uric acid can lead to kidney stones and even kidney failure, as well as gout.
Uric acid that isn't cleaned out from your system will become crystals and these crystals move around your body until they stop somewhere. Uric acid crystals often stop in joints, in fact they most often stop in the joint of the big toe. The crystals cause inflamation when they are enveloped in white blood cells, this is part of your bodys defences. While trying to protect your body, your white cells are actually helping to cause you the intense pain that is gout.
The inflammation of the joint is hastened by the occurrence of crystallized uric acid deposits in the person's joints. These crystallized uric acids may be found in joint or synovial fluid and joint or synovial lining. Intense inflammation develops when white blood cells envelops the uric acid crystals as a defense mechanism. This action causes the release chemicals that results in inflammation. The person will experience severe pain, redness and heat in the area afflicted.
In the United States, there are approximately a million people who have the disease. It is more prevalent in men than women. In the males, the most at risk are those after puberty and menopausal stage in women. Elevated levels of uric acid in the blood or hyperuricemia in medical term, may point to a heightened risk of gout development but, medical studies has yet to uncover the relationship of hyperuricemia and gout. It is known however that many of those who have hyperuricemia will not necessarily succumb to development of gout. In contrast, there are many who have experienced gout attacks actually have normal to low uric acid levels. - 17274
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What are the causes of gout? When you know what the causes are then you can try to avoid them and prevent yourself getting gout or at least reduce the duration of your gout attacks.
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