What are the symptoms of high uric acid

Simple high uric acid usually have no obvious symptoms, later with the progress of the disease, complications such as gout, gout stone, gouty nephropathy, kidney stones and other complications, may lead to joint symptoms, kidney symptoms and so on. 1. Joint symptoms: high uric acid patients with gout will appear around the joints of redness, swelling, heat, pain and joint movement disorders, mostly in the first metatarsophalangeal joints, multi-joint onset of the site is generally asymmetric, the pain intensifies at night, with the development of the disease may lead to joint deformation. Long-term gout patients can also form yellowish-white gout stones of different sizes around the joints. 2. Kidney symptoms: high uric acid patients with gouty nephropathy due to impaired renal function, early intermittent proteinuria and increased nocturia, late edema, hypertension, if the patient’s kidneys appear uric acid stones may lead to renal colic, hematuria and other symptoms, which in severe cases can lead to acute renal failure. It is recommended that patients with high uric acid should go to the rheumatology and immunology department, nephrology department and other related departments of regular hospitals for detailed consultation.