Tuesday, February 23, 2010

What is the drop

The illnesses that the human being suffers are of all kinds, and from this health blog we are to analyze them. One of the questions that we have risen to ourselves is on an illness on which it is associated with the uric acid: what is the drop.


In a rapid and intuitive way we can say that the drop is the inflammation of the joints, and that it is usually joined to a big uric acid quantity.

The uric acid is one of the products that the body does not want and rejects it. When the drop takes place, if the uric acid quantity is high, a few glazing forms in the shape of needle that settle inside the joints, and it is here where the inflammation takes place. This glazing can stay along with the textile of the joint or under the skin. With the time, this supposes a problem, since it can generate arthritis. On the other hand, the glazing can stay at the kidney, by what there would be generated the well-known calculation and the stones of the kidney, which so much finds it hard to expel them.

To a great extent, the drop usually appears in the joint of the base of the big toe. With minor frequency, it can appear in other joints, as those of the hands, dolls, elbow or ankles.

The drop usually comes without warning and in the night, with an intense and strong pain. The drop attack takes place for an increase in the uric acid levels, well why their big quantity has been consumed or because the body has not been capable of eliminating them.

The consumption of alcohol, which inhibits the expulsion of the uric acid for the kidneys, or of shellfish, with big percentage of this acid in his composition, they can worsen the drop. There is some medicines, like the diuretics or the acid acetilsalicílico, that can worsen the drop.

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