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Showing posts with label levels uric. Show all posts

Sunday, March 3, 2013

Gout Pain

uric acid

Unless you have a serious psychological disorder or fetish for any physical discomfort, you would not welcome anything that could cause you pain. Yes. Innately, humans abhor pain of any kind. So it is only logical that you would detest having gout, one of the most common causes of pain, especially in middle-aged or older men.


What is gout?


A medical condition in which a person's body over produces uric acid. This substance gets lodged in the joints, which in turn causes swelling and pain.


What is uric acid?


Well, it is the end product or the substance that is produced when our bodies metabolize a substance called purine. Our bodies do not actually use this end product, which is why it is most often flushed out of our bodies through our kidneys. In short, it goes out of our system in our urine.