The harmful effects of recurrent gout attacks on the body include affecting physical and mental health, affecting the normal function of joints, impaired kidney function and increasing cardiovascular prevalence.
1. Affecting physical and mental health: acute gout often attacks in the middle of the night, and there will be severe pain, such as burning, biting and cutting pain, which makes the patient unable to sleep at night and exhausted, affecting the patient’s physical and mental health.
2. Impact on the normal function of joints: repeated attacks of gout will lead to repeated red, swollen and hot pain in the affected joints, and may also cause gout stone formation, resulting in bone destruction leading to joint deformity, affecting the normal function of joints.
3. Impaired kidney function: repeated attacks of gout means that hyperuricemia in the body is not under control, which will cause impaired kidney function in the long run, and when gouty nephropathy occurs, it can lead to renal failure in severe cases.
4. Increase the prevalence of cardiovascular disease: patients with recurrent attacks of gout, the body’s uric acid content is relatively high, so that the probability of patients with cardiovascular disease increases.
Patients with recurrent gout attacks are advised to seek timely medical treatment and take effective measures under the guidance of doctors.