What are the dangers of gout and gout kidney?

  Gout comes like the wind, with sudden attacks, unbearable pain and unbearable suffering. With the development of social economy, the improvement of people’s living standard, the change of diet structure, and the acceleration of the pace of life, gout has also been “scraped” from the “imperial palace” to the “common people’s home” in the past. The “gout” is a common problem. According to a preliminary survey, among cadres and intellectuals over 45 years old, gout patients have reached about 2%. Gout mostly occurs in men aged 40-60, they live a wealthy life, big belly, fat and powerful, successful career, tired of socializing, wine and dine, after eating, drinking and playing easily induced gout attacks.  Gout patients have recurrent attacks and are difficult to cure. If they do not receive reasonable and effective treatment for a long time, uric acid crystals will be deposited in the joints and kidneys, forming gout stones and gouty nephropathy (referred to as gouty kidney), which can even be life-threatening. Gout patients often have “five highs and one low”, namely “high uric acid, high blood pressure, high blood sugar, high blood lipids, high body weight and low kidney function”.  According to the report, in the past 15 years, the number of gout and gout nephropathy hospitalized in urban hospitals in China is rising, and the rising trend in the south is more obvious than in the north, and has become a more common disease in China (especially in Guangdong and other open coastal areas). Gout and with kidney damage accounted for 41%, 25% died of renal failure, gout kidney is the primary cause of death from gout.  Therefore, in our life from subsistence to well-off today, we should pay great attention to the prevention and treatment of gout to prevent life improvement, gout stalking, affecting our health and quality of life.