gout causes and symptoms
- [voiceover] so gout is a joint disease that actually doesn't havemuch to do with the joint in the sense that the joint is fine. but it's a deposition of something that doesn't belong in the joint that causes all our problems. i'm drawing it on the big toe here because that's where goutis most commonly located. and it's been described as oneof the worst kinds of pain. an acute gout inflammation,this person probably can't walk, and their big toe willbe swollen like this. the culprit here, the little crystals are called monosodium urate. monosodium urate. and it's a crystallized form of uric acid, which is something thatis normally in our body as a byproduct, a breakdown product of our dna and rna. but when for some reasonthere's too much of this, it crystallizes and as itgoes throughout our body, it gets stuck in this joint. and whatever joint it's stuck in is gonna be painful and cause gout. but more often than not it's here. and by the...