How can gout patients judge their condition? You can check yourself through these 5 aspects!
Gout is a chronic disease, so after treatment, patients also need to strengthen the control in daily life to be able to effectively avoid risks, which can not avoid the need to judge the development process of gout through various examinations, and in daily life, it is also necessary for patients to check their own body, so that they can not only assess the degree of disease development, but also judge the treatment effect of their own symptoms.
How can people with gout do a self-examination?
1. Observe the performance of joints
In the early stage, patients can judge the disease by observing the joint manifestations, because gout can be judged by various problems such as redness, swelling, heat and pain before the attack. In addition, some patients have long-term gout problems, so it is necessary to pay attention to the risk of tophi formation, and observe the joints to determine whether tophi is formed, because when tophi is formed in the early stage, patients will have certain deformity problems.
2. Measure blood pressure
Gout is sometimes related to blood pressure, because hyperuricemia that causes gout is a typical metabolic disease, so it may increase blood pressure after a certain stage of development, which is a secondary hypertension problem. Therefore, if gout patients want to assess the risk of the underlying disease and the degree of progression, they can make a preliminary judgment by measuring blood pressure, and if the blood pressure rises, it means that it may have been affected by hyperuricemia.
3. Pain symptoms
Pain symptoms often appear after a gout attack, which is a typical condition in the acute phase of gout, and in daily life, although patients will not have various severe manifestations in the acute attack, they will still have certain pain problems. When patients with gout show signs of pain, it is important to pay more attention to it, because observing the nature of the pain and the duration of the pain indicates a way to examine the body. The risk of flare-ups can be determined based on the nature of ventilation and the duration of gout pain, and the patient's uric acid concentration can be assessed.
4. Understand systemic symptoms
Some patients with gout may develop systemic symptoms after a certain stage of development, which is caused by gout affecting the endocrine system or endangering kidney function.This usually means that the patient's gout problem has developed to the middle and advanced stages, and complications have begun to appear gradually, so it is necessary to judge the secondary disease problem according to the systemic symptoms that occur and control it in time.
5. Drug control effect
Gout patients can also be judged according to the effect of the drug during daily examination, because as long as the gout patient can insist on taking the medicine, the probability of attack is not large, but if there are repeated attacks in the process of taking the medicine, it means that the effect of drug control has been greatly reduced. Patients can judge the risk of the disease according to the changes in the effect of drug control, and can go to the hospital for examination to strengthen the adjustment of drugs.
Gout patients need long-term disease control, so they need to know about various self-test methods, which are not limited to various tests to determine the condition.If the rapid aggravation of the disease or the reduction of the efficacy of the drug is found, the patient can quickly go to the hospital for diagnosis and treatment, so as to avoid the gradual development of gout in daily life.