Arthritis Pain May Not Uric Acid

Arthritis Pain May Not Uric Acid

Rheumatism is a disease of joint disorders in the world's number one and number of victims continues to increase every year. On the other hand, understanding and attention to this disease are still inadequate. Most people think arthritis joint and muscle pain experienced due by uric acid. In fact, only 5-10 percent of rheumatic diseases are triggered by uric acid.

"As soon suffer from joint pain, usually people direct to check uric acid levels. In fact, uric acid is just one of 100 types of rheumatic diseases. This understanding needs to be clarified," said dr.Bambang Setyohadi, Division of Rheumatology Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia in educating the media event about rheumatic diseases held by Pfizer in Jakarta, (4 / 11).

Gout or uric acid is a type of arthritis caused by deposits of crystals of uric monosodium or uric acid that accumulates in the joints due to high levels of uric acid in the blood. To ensure that the pain experienced as a gout attack, it is necessary laboratory tests.

The characteristics of people affected by arthritis is a joint disorder that is settled, pain during daily activities such as walking, sitting, standing, and much more. Inflammation of the joints is also characterized by swelling, redness, stiffness, and even deformity.

Meanwhile, due to rheumatic gout attacks emerging as joint inflammation that arises repeatedly. Typical symptoms of arthritis gout attack are swelling, redness, severe pain, heat and movement disorders of the affected joints that occur suddenly (acute), which reached a peak of less than 24 hours.

"The disease is a sickness man uric acid. In women, the hormone estrogen will stimulate spending through urine uric acid so that uric acid levels are rarely high. But once entering the age of menopause, may increase uric acid," said dr.Bambang.