{"id":16260,"date":"2021-07-09T13:00:18","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T13:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/squad\/?p=16260"},"modified":"2021-07-09T13:00:18","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T13:00:18","slug":"how-do-you-know-you-have-gout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/gout\/how-do-you-know-you-have-gout\/","title":{"rendered":"How Do You Know You Have Gout?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All you know is that you have joint pain. Is it rheumatoid arthritis, an infection, gout, or something else? Gout can look like other things and also is difficult to diagnose. Even so, you need to take the possibility of gout seriously.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Gout vs. Everything Else<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.webmd.com\/arthritis\/do-i-have-gout\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gout<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> causes redness around the joints and also results in joint pain, but four other ailments have similar symptoms.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Psoriatic arthritis &#8211; this is arthritis that affects people with a skin condition called psoriasis.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Infectious arthritis &#8211; this is arthritis caused by an infection that spreads to a joint or the area surrounding the joint.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reactive arthritis\u00a0 &#8211; this is a condition that develops after there has been an infection, particularly one caused by food poisoning or a sexually transmitted infection.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pseudogout\u00a0 &#8211; This is sudden joint pain that occurs but goes away after a few days or weeks.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The basic differences in these conditions and gout are the root cause of arthritis.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Gout&#8217;s Root Cause<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gout is caused by an overload of uric acid flowing through the bloodstream. Tiny crystals form and they sit in the joints, causing pain. Typically, gout affects only one joint at a time but can affect multiple joints if left untreated.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The most common attack when a person first gets gout is in the big toe.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Who is at risk for gout?<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The key factors for gout risk are diet-related. People who are overweight, drink a lot of alcohol, eat foods high in purines.\u00a0 Purines are a compound that is either absorbed by the body or made directly by the body.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.webmd.com\/diet\/foods-high-in-purines#:~:text=Purines%20are%20one%20of%20the,directly%20by%20the%20body%20itself.\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Foods<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that have purines, which result in high uric acid, include asparagus, liver, sardines, dried beans, beer, gravy, and other animal organs. Genetics may have something to do with risk also.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whatever you think the condition may be, you need to see your family doctor for a diagnosis and get medical treatment. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All you know is that you have joint pain. Is it rheumatoid arthritis, an infection, gout, or something else? Gout can look like other things and also is difficult to diagnose. Even so, you need to take the possibility of gout seriously.\u00a0 Gout vs. Everything Else Gout causes redness around the joints and also results [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16308,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[711],"tags":[712,720],"class_list":["post-16260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gout","tag-gout","tag-gout-and-diet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}