Gout can cause swelling. Patients with gout experience significant localized joint swelling and pain, and a significant increase in local skin temperature, and gout attacks are often dominated by a single joint swelling. Patients with gout often have certain triggers before the swelling of the joints, such as after strenuous exercise, cold in the joints, or after eating foods high in purines. For patients with gout to reduce the swelling, they can take oral colchicine, ericiclib or diclofenac sodium for anti-inflammatory, pain relief and swelling reduction. After the patient’s swelling has completely disappeared, continuous uric acid-lowering medication, such as febuxostat to lower uric acid, is needed during the interval when the joints are painless in order to avoid a reoccurrence of gout swelling.