Gout urate crystals can generally be removed by adjusting the dietary structure, drug therapy and surgery.
1. Adjusting dietary structure: Uric acid is the product of purine metabolism, gout patients will have urate crystals deposited in the joints and their surrounding tissues, so gout patients need to adjust the dietary structure, strictly limit the intake of high-purine foods, such as animal offal, seafood, meat broths, etc., to achieve the purpose of removing the urate crystals through daily dietary control.
2. Drug therapy: gout patients can take sodium bicarbonate and other alkalinizing drugs; benzbromarone, probenecid and other drugs to promote uric acid excretion; febuxostat, allopurinol and other drugs to inhibit uric acid production. Joint pain can also take non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs such as celecoxib, indomethacin, etc.; glucocorticoid such as prednisone acetate, methylprednisolone, etc. in order to anti-inflammatory, analgesic, to remove urate crystals.
3. Surgery: When the effect of conservative treatment is not good, surgery is feasible to remove the urate crystals.
If gout-related discomfort occurs, it is recommended that patients seek timely medical treatment and follow the doctor’s instructions for standardized diagnosis and treatment.