Whether gout is hereditary has always been a topic of wide discussion, and there are many cases of multiple gout patients in the family. Is gout directly related to heredity? Why is there a concentrated incidence within the family?
How did two brothers suffer from gout together?
Is it a coincidence that the brothers are 37 years old and the younger brother is 33 years old, and both of them have developed gout at the same time when they are 20 years old, is this a coincidence, or is it genetic?
The younger brother said that when he first became ill, his toes were particularly painful, red and swollen, and his shoes could not be worn. My brother loves to drink, almost every day. Also like to eat hot pot and eat supper. Brother has been in a number of hospitals, but only when the acute stage of gout comes, take some medicine to relieve pain, brother's gout has not been standardized treatment, and now the two feet, two finger joint gout stone formation, right finger joint gout stone repeatedly broken, left foot first toe joint tophi rupture, looks very scary.
My brother liked to eat internal organs, and the first time he had gout, he woke up in the middle of the night, and the pain kept getting worse, as unbearable as being cut by a knife, and he couldn't walk. My brother had used external plasters and advertised health products, drugs and home remedies found on the Internet for treatment, but the results were minimal, and now the bipedal and left elbow joints often become ill, and the bipedal and left elbow joints also form tophi.
Causes of gout
Gout is hereditary, but only 10% to 20% of patients have a clinical family history of gout. Studies have shown that 70% of male patients need some external factor to cause an attack of gout. As you can see from the two brothers, the cause of their gout attack is dietary problems. The younger brother likes to eat high purine foods and drink alcohol regularly, which aggravates the increase in uric acid and eventually recurrent attacks of gout. Other triggers include infection, trauma, surgery, excessive fatigue, work and rest disorders, nervousness, cold, taking certain medications, acute kidney failure, allergies, hunger, wet and cold, tight shoes, walking, etc., all of which are prone to gout.
The medication for gout should be standardized
Many gout patients are prone to mistakenly believe in health care products and drug advertisements, like my brother is because he is not in the professional rheumatology and immunology department or rheumatism hospital, resulting in aggravation of the disease. Now there are many so-called medicinal liquors and health wines on the market, claiming that anyone can drink and cure all diseases, and there are great doubts about the efficacy of such products. If you do not treat gout in time after suffering from gout, only take medicine, do not adhere to standardized diagnosis and treatment, repeated repetition can easily lead to joint injury, kidney function damage.
Only called diet control, simply eating uric acid-lowering drugs, painfully eating painkillers, pain infusion for pain relief... The consequence of these irregular treatment methods is that Mr. An now has tophi in many places throughout his body. Why is it said that it is not standardized, these have not cured gout at all, and the development of gout cannot be controlled. The pain is because the uric acid crystals are eroding the cartilage, so no matter how you infuse and take medicine, it is useless, eating uric acid-lowering drugs can lower uric acid, but only forced pressure, metabolism is not adjusted, it will still be high.
Tips
Once the tophi is formed, the patient should pay more attention to it, not only to find a way to solve the problem of tophi, but also to actively treat to prevent the tophi from growing longer. If not treated in a timely and effective manner, tophi will grow longer and longer in various parts of the body, and the bone mass will be destroyed, resulting in the loss of the patient's active function, and the disability rate is very high. In addition, it affects internal organs, causing kidney stones, liver cysts, uremia, etc., endangering the lives of patients.