Ten Points for Attention in Medication for Gout Patients

1. It is necessary to relieve pain and reduce uric acid. After taking painkillers in time for gout attacks, the symptoms will mostly be relieved. Even without medication, the symptoms of pain can be relieved within two weeks. As a result, some people hold the mentality of enduring pain. However, joint pain is not the main harm of gout. Persistent high uric acid in remission period is also constantly endangering health, aggravating joint damage and endangering kidney at the same time. In addition, the general time for taking painkillers in the acute phase is about one week. If the pain still does not improve significantly after one week of medication, you should see a doctor in time. 2. Antibiotics cannot Read More …

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Uric acid increased? Beware of gout

The development of gout can be roughly divided into four stages clinically. From asymptomatic uric acid increase to gout attack, to severe joint damage and kidney function damage. At present, there are still many gout patients who do not pay enough attention to gout, believing that gout only causes unbearable joint pain when it breaks out, and there is no what harm when it does not break out. This idea is totally wrong. Let’s understand the development process of gout step by step, and we can also preliminarily judge which period we belong to. The first stage: hyperuricemia stage In this period, the population did not show clinical symptoms of gout except for the increase of blood uric acid. Many Read More …