Is gout just arthritis?

  When gout starts to attack, there is mostly redness, swelling and pain in a single joint, mostly triggered by improper diet or other factors, often peaking in 24 hours and relieving on its own within a week without any drugs, so many patients tell their doctors that he used so-and-so antibiotics to be effective when he had an attack, but in fact, it is not the effect of antibiotics, as the number of attacks increases, the site of joint pain gradually moves up to the knee, wrist, elbow and so on. Wrist joints, elbow joints, etc., and there can be two or more joints red, swollen and painful at the same time. At this time, uric acid salts are gradually deposited in other parts of the body, resulting in impaired function of various organs, serious loss of quality of life and serious threats to life, mainly in: 1. Deposited in the kidneys → gouty nephropathy, uric acid stones → uremia; kidney failure; 2. Deposited in the pancreas → inducing or aggravating diabetes; 3. Deposited in the blood vessel wall → atherosclerosis → aggravate coronary heart disease, hypertension, cerebral infarction; 4. Deposited near the joints, causing a large number of subcutaneous gout stones, resulting in inconvenient activities.