Bone disorders like arthritis and gout are considered to be one of the most painful diseases. They make a person helpless and suffer from unbearable pain all through the body. Gout is one such extremely complex bone disorder where in the toes of the patient become swollen and hot which can’t even bear the weight of  simple light sheet on them. Gout or also termed as gouty arthritis is a type of arthritis which is sited due to its special and sudden symptoms such as sudden and very grave pain attacks on the joints along with some redness in the joints of the body. The disease can occur to any person especially men as compared to women. However, even women become more inclined to suffer from the disease after their menopause. Thus, it gets extremely important that you learn about this disease with its symptoms and treatments so as to  constantly keep yourself at a check from the disease.

Symptoms:

The acute pain of the disease usually occurs suddenly and more commonly at night without giving any kind of warning.

• Inflammation and redness in the joints: The joints and the affected regions of the body become red, tender and also swollen due to the disease.
• Intense pain: The disease largely affects the big toes of our feet but many a times are seen to affect even the feet, ankles, wrists and hands. The pain persists for about minimum of 5 days to about 10 days and then finally stops by itself.

Causes:

Gout is mainly caused when the urate crystals formed in our body simply accumulate in the joints. This accumulation causes intense pain and inflammation in the affected area which we term as a gout attack. A higher level of uric acid in the body blood causes the formation of urate crystals in the body. Basically, our body either produces too much uric acid or happens to excrete very little uric acid as a result of which the uric acid in the blood forms the needle like urate crystals in the joint regions causing unbearable pain not only in the joints but also in the surrounding tissues. Based on the causes and the symptoms, the
treatment for gout is given to the patients.