Gout patients with swollen feet may be due to gout attacks, gouty kidney disease and other factors, should further clarify the causes of the symptoms and targeted selection of drugs and other methods to reduce swelling.
1. Gout attack: Gout attack mostly occurs in toe joints, knee joints, ankle joints and other joints of the lower limbs and leads to severe joint pain and joint swelling, fever and other symptoms, at this time, gout patients with swollen feet can take colchicine and etoricoxib, diclofenac and other anti-inflammatory and pain-relieving medications to reduce swelling.
2. Gouty nephropathy: the deposition of urate crystals in the kidneys can lead to gouty nephropathy, patients can appear proteinuria, hematuria, limb edema and other symptoms, so gout patients with swollen feet does not exclude that the disease has been involved in the kidneys, and need to be actively taking phenylbromarone, febuxostat and other uric acid drugs to correct hyperuricemia, and avoid the use of nephrotoxic drugs.
Drugs need to be used under the guidance of a physician, and it is recommended that gout patients with swollen feet go to the rheumatology and immunology department of a regular hospital, orthopedics and other related departments for detailed consultation.