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You don’t just hear about somebody having gout, you hear a person having gout. There is an agonised moaning as of somebody being entertained in one of the torture chambers of the Inquisition. The person is having a gout attack. When you see a person suffering from gout, you know that this is the body rebelling against having too many sharp crystals of uric acid accumulated in the joints, especially the big toe. Those uric acid crystals got there because of continuously excessive levels of uric acid in the blood. If there is too much concentration of uric acid in your blood the kidney can no longer filter out and dispose all of this waste. To get the uric acid out of the blood, needle-like uric acid crystals are formed. These crystals accumulate in the joints, particularly your big toe. And, when even the crystals reach excessive levels, the body will rebel. The gout attacks can be triggered by many factors. Protein-rich foods are the common culprit, since the metabolism of protein prod...

Gout is a rare disease, occurring in less than 1% of the population. Children, young adults and women before reaching menopause rarely develop the disease. Men (between 40 and 50) are the most susceptible to the disease, along with those who have undergone organ transplants. Diagnosis The roots of gout are in that high level of uric acid content in the blood called hyperuricemia. The excess uric acid crystals accumulate in the bone joint spaces, eventually causing gout. You can have hyperuricemia without developing gout; however, you cannot develop gout without having undergone hyperuricemia. Because its symptoms are not distinct, physicians don’t find it easy to diagnose gout. When you get an attack of acute gout, you may not necessarily show a high uric acid reading. To have a better basis for diagnosis, the doctor inserts a needle into your swollen joint and extracts some fluid for microscopic examination. If you have those lumps called tophi (which actually are deposits of uric aci...