Learn How to Stop Gout Pain and Inflammation
Have you ever woke up in the middle of the night, and felt as if your big toe was burning like it was on fire? It’s swollen, hot and has the feeling were its tender that even the weight of your blanket touching it seems uncontrollable and awful.
Alone in the United States over two million Americans are affected and suffer from attacks of Gout, it’s a terrible, painful condition. Gout is a type of arthritis condition. This is most common in men between the ages of 40 and 50, and in women, after menopause the occurrence increases. This condition is unlikely rare in children and young adults. It’s caused by too much uric acid in the blood. Sometimes, having too much uric acid is not always harmful. Some people that have high levels in their blood might never get gout. However, when your body can’t develop them correctly you’ll then have problems, when the levels get too high uric acid in the blood crystallizes of hard lumps and settles in the joint spaces, which is what causes swelling, inflammation, stiffness, and pain.
These crystals are uric acid, which is the breakdown process of purines thats a normal waste product from the food we eat. Uric acid is normally cleaned out of the body by the kidneys and is eliminated as urine. For some people with gout, the level of uric acid increases above average and crystals deposit in the ligaments and cartilage. An abnormality in the production or elimination of uric acid can cause attacks of gout arthritis, kidney stones, and even in extreme cases, the blockage of the kidney tubules with crystals, leading to kidney failure. The joint that’s most affected in gout is the big toe, although other joints could also be affected, which would be the knee, ankle, foot, hand, wrist and elbow. Read more…
