Long-term high uric acid may lead to gouty arthritis, kidney lesions, eye lesions and other hazards.
1. Gouty arthritis: the deposition of urate crystals in the joints and the surrounding soft tissues can cause gouty arthritis, patients can appear around the joints of the onset of redness, swelling, heat, pain and other symptoms, preferably in the metatarsophalangeal joints of the foot, the symptom more than a few days to 2 weeks to relieve, some patients can appear joint deformation.
2. Kidney lesions: patients with uric acid persistently higher than the normal level can lead to uric acid kidney stones or gouty nephropathy and other kidney lesions, uric acid kidney stones can lead to severe renal colic, and gouty nephropathy can occur in the late stage of renal insufficiency.
3. Eye lesions: patients with long-term persistent higher than normal levels of uric acid may develop blepharitis, conjunctivitis, keratitis, scleritis and other eye lesions.
Long-term high uric acid can also lead to other hazards, long-term high uric acid patients can go to the regular hospital endocrinology, rheumatology and immunology departments and other related departments for detailed consultation.