There is a wide variation in the price of gout treatment medications, ranging from $10 to $1,000 depending on the type, region, manufacturer and other factors.
Gout treatment drugs are broadly divided into acute attack symptomatic relief drugs, uric acid-lowering drugs and alkalinizing urine drugs.
Gout acute exacerbation relief drugs are colchicine, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs such as indomethacin and glucocorticoid drugs such as prednisone acetate, etc., uric acid lowering drugs, including allopurinol, febuxostat, phenylbromalone, etc., alkalinizing urine drugs are mainly sodium bicarbonate, each drug price ranges from 10 to 1,000 yuan.
The specific price of gout treatment drugs according to the type, region, manufacturers and other factors, there is a big difference, such as imports of febuxostat price can be as high as about 1,000 yuan a box, while the same kind of domestic drug price of only about 10 yuan, in addition, according to the patient’s condition is different, the treatment program also varies, the whole treatment cost also varies.
It is recommended that patients needing treatment for gout go to the Department of Rheumatology and Immunology of regular hospitals for relevant consultation.