The harms of high blood uric acid if not treated in time include joint swelling and pain, kidney damage, joint deformity, and so on.
1. Joint swelling and pain: common lower limb joints, most patients first in the foot first metatarsophalangeal joints, other metatarsophalangeal toes, dorsum of the foot, ankles, knees, fingers, wrists, elbow joints and so on can also be onset. Patients may wake up at night due to severe pain, and the local joints and surrounding tissues are obviously red, swollen, hot and painful.
2. Kidney damage: long-term high blood uric acid will also cause damage to the kidneys, early patients only have intermittent proteinuria, with the progression of the disease, the patient can appear edema, hypertension, urinary frequency, hematuria, urinary pain and other symptoms, in severe cases, can also cause acute renal failure.
3. Joint deformity: long-term high blood uric acid concentration, and do not adhere to the treatment, will make the joints involved, and may form gout stone, resulting in local joints, tendons near the joints, tendon sheaths and other parts of the appearance of different sizes of the bulge of superfluous organisms, in severe cases, but also cause joint stiffness, deformity, limited activities.
It is recommended that patients with high blood uric acid go to the hospital in time to receive treatment as early as possible so as not to affect the quality of life.