MOSCOW, Dec 12. Acute joint pain may signal the development of gout. Alyona Zagrebneva, the chief rheumatologist of the Moscow Department of Health, said this on the air of the Moscow Talking radio station. According to her, the classic manifestation of the disease is pain in the first toe, which usually swells, and also becomes red and hot. 
The therapist named a symptom in which one should not drive. In such a situation, the patient can wait out the pain without using analgesics, since the first gout attack often goes away on its own. However, some people prefer to stop the pain syndrome with the help of anti-inflammatory drugs. «Then the patient will enter the interictal period, which can last from several months to several years. During this time, disturbed metabolic processes in the body will continue and the background value of uric acid in the blood will increase,» the doctor explained. repeat in other joints, she added. The socialist advised not to resort to anesthesia, but to urgently go to the hospital. joints, in particular, polyarthritis and gout, to minimize or even refuse to eat veal, since it contains purine, which promotes the accumulation of uric acid.
