There is nothing new about gout, it has been around for hundreds and probably thousands of year and has seen millions of people suffer with it. Gout is prevalent in some families, if your father or other male member of your family has gout then there is a chance that you to will develop it.
Your kidneys work very hard removing items from your body that can cause illness and even poison your body from the inside. If you don't take care of your kidneys by doing things such as drinking 8 glasses of water a day to help flush toxins from your body then there is always the chance that they won't be able to remove as much uric acid from your system as they should.
In milder cases, the person may only develop a condition called hyperucemia, a condition characterized by elevated levels of uric acid in the blood. Such a condition may not develop into arthritis or other kidney problems.
Uric acid that isn't cleaned out from your system will become crystals and these crystals move around your body until they stop somewhere. Uric acid crystals often stop in joints, in fact they most often stop in the joint of the big toe. The crystals cause inflammation when they are enveloped in white blood cells, this is part of your bodies defenses. While trying to protect your body, your white cells are actually helping to cause you the intense pain that is gout.
The inflammation of the joint is hastened by the occurrence of crystallized uric acid deposits in the person's joints. These crystallized uric acids may be found in joint or synovial fluid and joint or synovial lining. Intense inflammation develops when white blood cells envelops the uric acid crystals as a defense mechanism. This action causes the release chemicals that results in inflammation. The person will experience severe pain, redness and heat in the area afflicted.
Finding out if you have gout is not an exact science in any way. We have mentioned enhanced levels of uric acid already, yet there are people who have gout but don't display increased uric acid levels. If you have the pain that we have described then it is time to go and see a Dr, be totally honest and open with your Dr, tell him exactly what pain you are having and when you have experienced it.
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What are the causes of gout ? When you know what the causes are then you can do something to avoid them and prevent yourself getting gout or at least reduce the duration of your gout episodes.
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