How to identify if you have gout

To identify yourself as having gout, firstly, you have the basis of hyperuricemia, and secondly, gout mostly occurs in the joints of lower limbs, such as pain in the first metatarsophalangeal joint or pain in the back of the foot, ankle, or even the knee joint, and the pain sometimes gets better on its own in 2-3 days, if the limb repeatedly has many attacks, usually has hyperuricemia, and in the absence of trauma, after consuming meat and other high purine diet by yourself Most of the episodes of joint pain in the lower limbs after drinking beer or eating seafood are considered to be gout. More than 50% of patients with gout experience pain in the first metatarsophalangeal joint, either in the left or right foot. One of the most important treatment principles other than the identification of gout is to focus on anti-inflammation and pain relief in the acute phase of gout, and to lower uric acid in the non-acute phase, to standardize the review of uric acid, lower uric acid, and to adjust uric acid-lowering drugs according to the value of uric acid, either febuxostat or benzbromarone, to maintain the target of uric acid at 300-360 μmol/L.