Patients with gouty joint pain can relieve their symptoms through general treatment, medication and surgery.
1. General treatment: patients should drink more water, pay attention to diet control, avoid eating animal offal, fish and shrimp and other high-purine food, avoid smoking and alcohol, reduce the consumption of greasy food and fermented food. Patients in the acute period should pay attention to rest, avoid strenuous exercise, can be appropriate to elevate the affected limbs, the pain of the joints can be relieved by cold compresses to relieve the symptoms.
2. Drug treatment: patients can take colchicine, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, such as indomethacin, ibuprofen, etc., and glucocorticosteroids, such as prednisone, etc., under the guidance of the doctor.
3. Surgery: For patients whose conservative treatment is ineffective or whose gout stone affects the joint function, and whose fingers and toes are necrotic or deformed, they can undergo surgery through arthroscopic surgery, lesion removal surgery, artificial joint replacement surgery, etc. in order to alleviate the symptoms.
It is recommended that gout patients go to the rheumatology and immunology department, orthopedics and other related departments in regular hospitals for detailed consultation and standardized diagnosis and treatment in accordance with the doctor’s instructions.