The natural course of gout is divided into 3 stages, which include asymptomatic hyperuricemia, acute gouty arthritis and intermittent phase, gouty stone and chronic gouty arthritis. Common symptoms of gout include redness, swelling and pain in joints. 1. Asymptomatic hyperuricemia: patients only have fluctuating or persistent hyperuricemia, and some patients may remain asymptomatic for life. 2. Acute gouty arthritis and intermittent phase: patients will suddenly become ill at night, with severe pain in the joints, redness, swelling, heat, pain and dysfunction of the affected joints, accompanied by fever, and skin desquamation of the affected joints after the redness and swelling subside, and the intermittent phase refers to the asymptomatic period between two gouty attacks. 3. Gout stone and chronic gouty arthritis: gout stone is commonly found in the interphalangeal, metacarpophalangeal, elbow and other joints, Achilles tendon and other parts of the appearance of the bulging irregular yellow-white irregular in size, after the ulceration of the discharge of white powder or paste urate crystals, chronic arthritis patients, the joints involved in the asymmetric irregular swelling, pain and other symptoms. It is recommended that gout patients to the regular hospital in time, under the diagnosis of the doctor, according to the specific performance of the disease, follow the doctor’s instructions to take targeted treatment.