| There are a few factors into what causes gout, | | | | you get, for instant taking physical exercise and |
| some people say it is genetic, others say it could be | | | | reducing your alcohol intake, especially cutting out |
| due to being overweight and lack of exercise, | | | | beer and by eating a good healthy well balanced diet |
| generally it can be your lifestyle e.g. wrong foods, | | | | you could actually eliminate gout from your life for |
| too much alcohol. You will find gout mainly in men | | | | good. Food rich in protein and purine produce uric acid |
| aged 40+ and even though it has been known that | | | | which is a normal by product of protein metabolism |
| women can get it too, it stills seems to be mainly a | | | | which changes the liquid in your body into tiny |
| male disease. Gout is a form of arthritis, that results | | | | crystals which settle in and around the joints. |
| in an accumulation of excess uric acid in and around | | | | When you get gout attacks it feels like small sharp |
| the joints e.g. big toe. | | | | pieces of glass stabbing at your joints, it is very |
| Gout sufferers get excruciating pain from acute | | | | painful and your joints swell up something terrible and |
| attacks of gout which results in the joint swelling up, | | | | get very red and hot it get's so bad, depending what |
| feeling very hot and red. | | | | joint it is, let say it is your big toe, you won't even |
| Gout can be genetic, but there are solutions for you | | | | be able to put your shoes on. |
| to take in order to minimise the frequency of attacks | | | | |