What are the symptoms of high uric acid in the hands and feet? See what this article says
No matter what kind of health problem, many friends like to look at symptoms, but the result of doing so is often that when symptoms appear, the problem has been there for a long time, and it may have developed more seriously.
For example, we often talk about the problem of high uric acid, and many friends ask this question: When uric acid is elevated, what symptoms will appear in the hands and feet? For this question, I can only say this: High uric acid may indeed cause related symptoms in the hands and feet. Through the related symptoms in the hands and feet, it can also be preliminarily judged that there may be a problem of high uric acid, but when we judge by the symptoms of the hands and feet When uric acid is high, you may have had high uric acid for a long time.
What are the symptoms of high uric acid in the hands and feet?
First, the problem of acute gouty arthritis. High uric acid refers to a physiological phenomenon in which the concentration of uric acid in the blood exceeds the standard. The solubility of uric acid in the blood is very low. When the uric acid in the blood exceeds the standard, uric acid will precipitate uric acid in the blood. Crystals, these tiny crystals will eventually form deposits in many parts of the body, including of course the joints of the hands and feet. If these deposited uric acid salts cause an inflammatory reaction in the joints, it will cause acute gouty joints outbreak of inflammation. Usually the most common part is the first knuckle joint of the big toe, but it may also cause redness, swelling and pain in the arch of the foot, ankle, etc. The same is true for the hand, and redness, swelling and pain in the knuckles and other parts may also occur.
Acute gout often has a rapid onset, severe pain, which affects movement, and is accompanied by typical symptoms such as joint redness, swelling, and burning sensation. Pressing or touching will aggravate the pain. If the symptoms are typical, it is suspected to be acute gouty arthritis. It is recommended to check the blood uric acid concentration and the joint fluid examination and analysis. If the uric acid level is found to exceed the standard, urate crystals can also be found in the joint fluid, which can basically diagnose the attack of acute gouty arthritis.
Another symptom is the gradual accumulation of urate, which is a chronic tophi problem. The deposition of uric acid in the joints of the hands and feet is not limited to causing acute gout attacks. Some friends even have high uric acid for many years without acute gout, but uric acid will still form chronic forms in joints and other parts. Deposition, which can gradually form tophi, affecting the health of joints and related tissues. It often takes years of urate deposition and accumulation to really see tophi. Generally speaking, if the deposition of uric acid forms tophi, the joints of the hands and feet will be swollen and swollen, and the symptoms of gray-white nodules will appear under the skin. At this time, an experienced doctor can usually basically judge that your blood uric acid level has exceeded the standard for many years. When you go to check the uric acid value at this time, of course, there is often a problem of high uric acid.
Tophi is a typical manifestation of chronic injury with high uric acid. Usually, in the process of forming chronic tophi, the texture is usually soft at the beginning, and the damage to the surrounding bone and other tissues is also small. If the level of uric acid is strictly controlled (below 300), the tophi can still be dissolved reversibly, but if the tophi continues to develop, gradually becomes hard, and has a greater impact on the surrounding tissues, it is necessary to completely reverse it. The tophi problem is basically impossible.
Therefore, for high uric acid, whether we have acute gout attacks in the hands and feet, or obvious chronic tophi problems, often high uric acid has been for several years or even longer, through the related symptoms of hands and feet It is often too late to diagnose a high uric acid problem. If you want to know if you have high uric acid, the best way is to judge your risk probability of elevated uric acid based on your own situation. At the same time, pay attention to regularly check your uric acid level and know your uric acid situation in time. Once you find high uric acid, don’t Control it only when symptoms appear in the hands and feet. Control intervention should be strengthened as soon as possible to reduce the risk of health hazards caused by high uric acid.