What is the difference between gout and stroke?

Stroke generally refers to stroke, gout and stroke are different in etiology, symptoms, treatment methods and so on.

1, different etiology gout is

considered to be abnormal purine metabolism in the body, uric acid accumulation. Stroke is considered to be caused by intracranial and external artery stenosis occlusion, trauma, cerebral artery malformation.

2, different symptoms

gout patients can appear joint pain, joint deformity, limited mobility and other symptoms. Stroke patients can appear numbness, blurred speech, headache, nausea, paralysis, consciousness disorders and other symptoms.

3, treatment methods different

gout patients should pay attention to daily reduce the intake of high purine food, increase drinking water, under the guidance of doctors to take colchicine, indomethacin, diclofenac and other drugs, if necessary, surgery to remove tophus. Stroke treatment methods include interventional therapy and surgical thrombolytic therapy.