How to relieve foot pain caused by gout

Gout-induced foot pain is called an acute attack of gouty arthritis and can usually be relieved by the following methods: i. Adjust your diet: immediately stop eating foods high in purines, such as animal offal, seafood, beer, etc., and increase water intake to no less than 2000 ml/d, thus promoting uric acid excretion. At the same time, avoid taking thiazide diuretics and drugs that may affect uric acid excretion, and do your best to avoid reducing the triggers of gout. Second, drug treatment: 1, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs: such as indomethacin, ibuprofen, etc., these drugs can maximize the rapid relief of acute gouty arthritis symptoms. And topical drugs, such as diclofenac, can also play a better relief effect; 2, colchicine: belongs to the treatment of gouty acute arthritis of special drugs, 90% of patients in 48 hours after taking the drug can appear obvious relief of symptoms, symptoms relief can gradually reduce the dose of drugs until the drug is discontinued; 3, glucocorticoids: if the patient can not use the above drugs, then you can take glucocorticoids for treatment. Usually, no uric acid-lowering treatment is given during the acute attack of gouty arthritis, and uric acid-lowering treatment is started only after 2 weeks of complete relief of foot pain, and it can be started with small doses of uric acid-lowering drugs until uric acid reaches the standard.