Gout doctor Wang Wei treated gout stones to help relieve Uncle's condition

With the development of social and economic development, lifestyle and dietary changes, the prevalence of gout is increasing year by year. Domestic reports on the prevalence of gout range from 0.86% to 2.20%, of which 1.42% to 3.58% are males and 0.28% to 0.90% are females. In gout, 12% to 35% will be complicated by tophi.

Tophi is a complex but orderly dynamic chronic inflammatory tissue triggered by the deposition of uric acid crystals, in which both intrinsic and adaptive immunity are involved, and its structure is mainly divided into uric acid crystal nuclei, peripheral cell layers and fibrous vascular tissues from the inside to the outside. Pro-inflammatory factors and anti-inflammatory factors are expressed in tophi lesions, which are consistent with the clinical characteristics of repeated cycles of inflammation and inflammation regression. Tophi that is visible or accessible to the naked eye is usually seen in patients with recurrent episodes of acute gouty arthritis over many years, and there are also data describing that tophi usually does not appear until more than a decade after the first gout arthritis attack. According to domestic reports, gout has a long course, high blood uric acid levels, a large number of joints involved, upper limb joint involvement, kidney stones, and patients with hypertension are more likely to develop tout stones early.

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Uncle Jin is 65 years old this year, and the history of gout has been as long as 9 years. Since my family prefers to drink soup on weekdays, rib soup, chicken soup, duck soup, etc. are basically not broken every week. One night in July 2012, Uncle Jin was awakened by severe pain from his right foot, and there were obvious symptoms of redness, swelling and fever in the affected area. Because of the unbearable pain, Uncle Jin could only sit on his right foot until dawn. Early in the morning, accompanied by my family, I rushed to a local hospital for treatment. The doctor told Uncle Jin that he had gout, and then prescribed some colchicine and allopurinol and asked him to go back for treatment. After 4 days of medication, Uncle Jin felt that the affected area was gradually less painful, red and swollen, and the phenomenon of fever was gone, so he thought that he was well, and he did not continue to take the drug, and the diet was still the same as before, basically not much taboo.

However, after a period of time, Uncle Jin's condition recurred, out of the experience of the last treatment, he quickly took out the medicine that he had not eaten last time from the medicine box, and the gout was alleviated after a few days of medication, but he still did not pay attention to it, and still repeated his previous life. As if caught in an infinite cycle of "gout attack - medication improvement", the effect of the drugs used to treat in the past slowly became worse and worse, and Uncle Jin suffered from gout disease.

In January this year, Uncle Jin noticed that several small "bumps" had grown on his right foot, and because he did not have any symptoms, he did not care. By August this year, his gout had struck again, the medication could not stop the pain, the few small "bumps" on his feet had become much larger, and it had become inconvenient to walk. This frightened him a lot, and he quickly asked his family to send him to Wuhan Tongpu Gout Hospital for medical treatment.

Wang Wei, the leader of the hospital who received the hospital, after understanding his intentions, told Uncle Jin that the "bumps" on his feet were tonic stones, which were caused by long-term failure to control uric acid. According to his situation, it is recommended that he adopt the characteristic TCM targeted acid-draining balance treatment system for source treatment.

After 5 days of treatment, the symptoms of redness and swelling disappeared, after 15 days of treatment, the tophi softening was significantly reduced, the symptoms of joint activity restriction disappeared, because all the indicators met the discharge criteria, Wang Wei team leader let Uncle Jin take medicine home to continue to consolidate 1 course of treatment, and advised him to pay attention to controlling the diet, and the broth in the past should not be drunk again.