Can foot soaks relieve gout?

Gout patients cannot be relieved by foot soaking because in the acute phase of gout, soaking the feet in hot water will instead aggravate the inflammatory response of the patient’s joints and worsen the pain of gout. For the acute phase of gout, patients cannot be relieved by foot soaks. To relieve the pain of gout, patients can take oral colchicine. Some patients do not tolerate colchicine and will experience abdominal pain, diarrhea and other gastrointestinal reactions after taking it, which can then be replaced with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory and analgesic drugs, such as diclofenac sodium, for anti-inflammatory and pain relief to relieve the patient’s gout pain symptoms. Once the patient’s pain is relieved, continuous uric acid-lowering medication is needed in the interval to make it possible to reduce the number of gout attacks, and febuxostat can be chosen to lower uric acid.