The swelling and pain in a gout attack are caused by the uric acid crystals that built up in the joint and cause inflammation. The main causes of gout are as follows. It is seen that genetics play a major role in the development of gout as nearly 18 percent of the patients had a family history of gout. Gout is more common in men and mostly affects adults.
Another cause of gout could be being overweight. Alcohol in large quantities can also lead to hyperuricemia as it hampers the removal of uric acid from the body. Foods rich in purines can also aggravate or cause gout. Similarly some medicines and medical problems also cause gout. Exposure to high level of lead and an enzyme defect can also cause high level of uric acid in some cases.
I just got my first taste of GOUT and I can tell you I think shattering my toes was a lot less painful than having GOUT. I seeing that using a TENS UNIT have not have a lot of study on the affects on GOUT, But I will say that it has totally reduced my pain a lot to where I can not feel the pain. I will still use my tens unit to get my study on myself to let other people know what affects or outcome of using a tens unit verses someone who don’t. I have family members that have gout and been using drugs to help lower the GOUT issue. I will also be letting my Doctor keep a record. I would rather not use medication do too so many issues that drugs cause to a human body.