How should gout be treated

General treatment for gout can be improved lifestyle and diet, medication, surgery and so on. 1. Improvement of lifestyle and diet: Gout patients need to avoid food with high purine content, such as animal liver and seafood, which should not be consumed. In addition, drinking plenty of water, regular work and rest, and active exercise can improve the physical condition of gout patients, and they should avoid catching cold in daily life to avoid inducing joint pain. 2. Medication: When gout patients experience acute attacks of gout symptoms, they can use glucocorticosteroids (e.g. prednisone, etc.) under the guidance of the doctor for treatment, and they can also follow the doctor’s instructions to take febuxostat, benzbromarone and other uric acid-lowering drugs. 3. Surgical treatment: patients with severe gout, generally there are large gout stones in the body, need to be operated under the guidance of a doctor, the common surgical methods are gout lesion removal surgery, arthroscopic lesion cleanup surgery and so on. It is recommended that patients with gout go to the rheumatology and immunology department of regular hospitals in time for detailed consultation and standardized treatment under the guidance of doctors.