Have you, your relatives or friends around you ever experienced this? Sudden onset of severe pain and redness in the joint of the big toe or the whole foot, difficulty sleeping at night, or even pain so severe that you can’t even cover yourself with a blanket. You can’t walk on the floor when you wake up the next day, and it returns to normal within a few days or a week, but it recurs. If so, do you or he or she also have the following characteristics Drink a lot of alcohol frequently, or like to eat foods such as animal offal, seafood and meat. Is overweight and lacks exercise. Suffer from hyperlipidemia, hypertension, diabetes or cardiovascular disease, etc. Gout is a disease of abnormal purine/uric acid metabolism. With the improvement of people’s living standard, the prevalence is high. Gout can cause not only arthritis attacks but also kidney damage, while poor lifestyle can cause a series of comorbidities and irreversible damage. Therefore, it is recommended that you need to have your blood uric acid and uric acid measured, along with kidney function and ultrasound, and in the case of an arthritis attack, a joint puncture to extract synovial fluid or a mini-arthroscopic subsurface membrane biopsy for gout stone examination. If you or he or she is in general agreement with the above, then it is likely that you have gout. Don’t underestimate gout, it affects quality of life and endangers people’s health as much as any other disease. However, if we can detect it early, treat it properly and prevent it, we can effectively control the disease progression.