What’s wrong with joint pain in your fingers the day after you drink?

Finger joint pain on the second day of drinking may be caused by excessive drinking, gout or osteoarthritis.
1. Excessive drinking: After excessive drinking of alcoholic beverages, the alcohol that enters the body needs to be metabolized in the liver and produces lactic acid, which is not excreted in time and may be retained in the joints of the fingers causing joint pain.
2. Gout: gout is a metabolic disease caused by purine metabolism disorders, drinking alcohol is one of the important triggering factors of gout, gout attacks can lead to pain, swelling and other symptoms of the finger joints, so the patient drinking alcohol after the finger joint pain is not excluded is caused by gout.
3. Osteoarthritis: Osteoarthritis is a non-inflammatory degenerative joint disease, patients can appear joint pain, stiffness and other symptoms, drinking alcohol can lead to increased blood flow, alcohol metabolized by the human body produces acidic substances are more likely to be retained in the joints and the surrounding soft tissues and induced, aggravated by osteoarthritis patients symptoms.
Finger joint pain on the second day of drinking may also be caused by other reasons, it is recommended that patients with this symptom go to the orthopedics, rheumatology and immunology departments of regular hospitals for detailed consultation.