High uric acid foot pain is usually triggered by acute gouty arthritis, the treatment can be generally used medication, physical therapy and dietary modification of three ways to alleviate the symptoms of foot pain.
1. Drug treatment: patients can follow the doctor’s instructions to use colchicine or non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs for anti-inflammatory pain, common diclofenac sodium extended-release tablets, celecoxib capsules. When the above drugs are not effective, glucocorticosteroids can be used for a short period of time, such as prednisone acetate tablets, methylprednisolone tablets and so on, as prescribed by the doctor.
When the pain symptoms improve, you can follow the doctor’s advice to take allopurinol tablets, febuxostat, benzbromarone tablets and other uric acid-lowering drugs to reduce the level of uric acid.
2. Physiotherapy: Patients should rest in bed, elevate the affected limbs and apply ice packs on the painful areas to help relieve local pain symptoms. When applying ice, you need to pay attention to the temperature and time control, and the ice time should not be too long.
3. Dietary adjustments: patients in daily life should be low purine diet to assist in the treatment, try to avoid eating such as alcohol, seafood, offal and other high-purine food. At the same time, patients should drink more water to help discharge uric acid in the body.
It is recommended that patients in the presence of high uric acid foot pain, go to the hospital in a timely manner to the rheumatology and immunology department, a clear diagnosis, under the guidance of the doctor according to the actual situation of the rational use of drugs to reduce uric acid, anti-inflammatory pain.