Does gout happen once for life?

Once you have gout, you will carry it for life because gout, like diabetes and hypertension, is a chronic disease and a type of metabolic rheumatism. But don’t be afraid, patients with gout can achieve clinical cure and no more attacks without chronic gouty arthritis, gout stones and gouty kidney changes if they are treated regularly and standardized in the early stage. The standardized treatment of gout requires patients to visit the rheumatology department and develop a suitable plan for themselves according to their own situation. Patients need to pay great attention to their life, such as balanced nutrition, reasonable diet, avoiding the intake of high purine food, active exercise, strict weight control, and also strict abstinence from alcohol. On the basis of this, patients can take suitable uric acid-lowering drugs, and most of them can control their disease very well and achieve clinical remission.