subject: Gout and Hyperuricemia - How Bad Can It Be? [print this page] Gout and Hyperuricemia - How Bad Can It Be?
Hyperuricemia is a health complication in which your body failed to regulate the uric acid in your body which results in the rise of the acid level. When the concentration of uric acid in your body reaches the maximum saturation point, crystallization happens and formsmonosodium urate crystals (MSU) in certain parts of your body such as within the synovial fluid (gout), under the skin surface (tophi), and inside the kidneys (kidney stones).
The very first site of urate crystals deposition is usually thesynovial fluid of the big toe. 90% of gout patients get their very first gouty inflammation at the big toe which eventually spreads upwards to the ankle, knee, and hand.
Over the years, various forms of gout drugs have been invented to deal with the awful pain of gout attack. These medicines are mainly serve as pain killers and anti-inflammatory drugs, popular ones arecolchicines,ibuprofen, andNSAIDs. Those are the drugs prescribed for the purpose of dealing with the inflammation during the span of the gout attack.
For chronic gout patients who have very high blood uric acid level, the doctors usually prescribe another group of drugs such asAllopurinol andUloric to control the blood uric acid level. These types of drug act by suppressing the enzymes in the liver that convert purine to uric acid.
Now we have the medicines the treat both gout and hyperuricemia, is that means the problem is under controlled?No! The fact is that the number of newly diagnosed cases of gout and hyperuricemia is still rising, actually it is accelerating. Those drugs can only serve as temporary solutions to the pain and inflammation, none of them can actually reverse or heal the problem of gout and hyperuricemia.
The root cause of the problem is over accumulation of uric acid in the body, suppressing the production of it does not mean it is cleared from body. Excess purine must be disposed out from your body in the form of uric acid. Blocking the degradation of purine is like sweeping the dirt under the carpet.
A day will come when your body cannot retain those waste purines in the liver anymore and that is when hell breaks loose,domino effect takes place in your body. First, your kidneys fails, then follow by the collapse of your liver. When these 2 major filtering organs in your body become totally malfunction, your blood cannot be cleaned and that is the end of your life.
