Symptoms of Gout

Video Transcript

"Symptoms of gout. This is an acute which is a sudden attack of joint pain of redness and sometimes swelling within an area, usually it's the large toe. Person may wake up one morning and the toe, the big toe, it's always the large toe, that will usually be really red and painful, it's arthritic in nature. It also could affect your feet and your ankles, knees, the hands and the wrist. It's an inflammatory condition like I said with redness and tenderness and pain. Even if it goes untreated, usually it's gone within 5 to 10 days. Even the discomfort level will decrease in one to two weeks and the person returns back to normal. There are tests that can be done by the licensed physician but I have known people in the past, especially some of my uncles who have just had gout in that large toe and it's extremely painful and just didn't know what could of possibly went on, perhaps they thought that they'd been bit by something but after checking with their physician, or watching it for several days, they decided that that's probably what it was, it was gout and after a while it returned back again but usually if you get treated by a licensed physician he'll diagnose it and you'll know what it is."