Why does gout always flare up at night? Be vigilant against the 4 major symptoms before a gout attack!
Gout attacks can cause great harm to the human body, and the disease can appear suddenly and be accompanied by severe symptoms that can be unspeakably painful. Patients need to treat gout in time to relieve symptoms and reduce the damage to the body. And gout often appears suddenly at night, making it difficult to prevent it, what should I do?
What are the symptoms at night to be alert to an onset of gout?
1. Red and swollen joints
Before going to bed, sometimes there may be redness and swelling of some parts of the joints, which means that gout may be coming, when gout appears, the uric acid in the body will be significantly increased, under normal circumstances, uric acid crystals will continue to cause irritation to the joints in the joints, so it will cause the symptoms of joint redness and swelling, at this time, the local redness and swelling, that is, the omen before the attack of gout, can be quickly controlled for uric acid at this time, to relieve the symptoms of gout.
2. Dry mouth
Some patients have inexplicable dry mouth during sleep, and many times patients tend to think that this isget angryHowever, gout may cause dry mouth symptoms when sleeping. Gout generally directly causes the body's uric acid to rise, at this time, a large number of uric acid crystals accumulate locally, it is easy to make the patient's oral cavity have abnormal reactions, the most obvious is dry mouth, if the feeling of dry mouth is obvious when sleeping, you need to drink water, then it means that the concentration of uric acid in the blood is relatively high.
3. Joint pain
When gout occurs, there will be obvious pain in the joints, which is known to almost all gout patients, but the pain in the joints will gradually become obvious when sleeping, which means that gout has begun to attack. The continuous accumulation of local uric acid crystals can cause severe irritation to the body and joints, and when patients experience pain, they will also have a burning sensation due to inflammation. At this point, uric acid needs to be lowered quickly, otherwise it is likely to cause pain that lasts too long or damages the joint.
4. Increased urine output
There are generally many signs of gout, such as when the concentration of uric acid increases, it will cause a disorder of uric acid excretion, which will affect the normal urination, so if there is an abnormal increase in nocturia, but the urine output is not very large, it means that gout is coming.In this case, kidney function will also be affected to a certain extent, and if there is abnormal urine such as foamy urine, it means that gout has developed to a serious condition.
How should patients cope with nocturnal gout?
After falling asleep at night, metabolism generally slows down significantly, so there is an obstacle to the excretion of uric acid, and it is not easy to make uric acid crystals continue to accumulate. If there are already some signs of an attack before bedtime, patients can consider taking medication in advance to lower uric acid and prevent gout attacks.
Nocturnal attack of gout is really unbearable for gout patients, and there are many factors that may lead to the recurrence of gout, so gout patients need to be prepared before going to bed to prevent gout attacks at the same time, but also need to exclude these factors, if there is a more serious situation, they also need to go to the hospital for examination and treatment in time, so as not to delay the condition.