During an acute attack of gout, the patient suffers from red, swollen and painful joints and has trouble sleeping at night. In this case, learn how to get rapid relief from the swelling and pain in your joints by the following methods: 1. Wear loose shoes and socks; 2. Take a little ice from the refrigerator and wrap a clean towel for cold compresses; 3. You can apply anti-inflammatory and pain-relieving ointments locally; 4. Reasonable choice of anti-inflammatory and pain-relieving drugs. The more commonly used ones are ibuprofen, celecoxib and diclofenac sodium. However, anti-inflammatory treatment to improve pain is the only way to treat the symptoms but not the root cause of gout. To cure gout and to prevent the redness, swelling, heat and pain caused by recurrent attacks of gout, there is only one way, that is, to actively improve one’s lifestyle, quit drinking, eat less fatty food, drink more water, and at the same time reasonably choose uric acid-lowering drugs to control the uric acid in one’s body within a reasonable range for a long time. However, whether the blood uric acid reaches the standard and whether the redness, swelling, heat and pain of gout will recur must be reasonably diagnosed and timely treated under the guidance of a specialist in rheumatology.