What to do when gout attacks, how to relieve gout pain

Gout is a crystal-related arthropathy caused by deposition of monosodium urate (MSU). Gout attacks are often unbearable because they cause redness, swelling, tingling, and weakness in the joints. What are some good ways to relieve pain when gout attacks?

1: During an acute attack, the patient should elevate the affected limb and allow the affected part to rest. This may not be easy to do because you may be unable to move due to pain. Most patients at this stage cannot even bear the weight of a bed sheet, and will feel severe pain if the joints are slightly touched. We can make a protective frame so that the sheets and blankets do not press on the painful area.

1: Since the swollen area is hot and painful, you can apply an ice pack to the skin to help relieve the pain.

1: You can grind 5 grams of cinnamon into powder and take it with 20 grams of honey. Massage the painful joints and the pain will be relieved in 30 minutes.

1: If the pain is really unbearable, you must use non-steroidal analgesics, such as diclofenac sodium. It is not possible to use hormones and salicylic acid to relieve pain, otherwise the condition will worsen. You may take colchicine to treat acute gout inflammation, but the side effects often make you uncomfortable, such as diarrhea. However, if you use gout acid-removing capsules to control blood uric acid levels at normal levels, after a period of treatment, patients with mild gout will recover.

1: Use Chinese medicine to stabilize and inhibit uric acid to prevent and treat future recurrences. Some patients take gout acid-removing capsules to suppress uric acid. This medicine itself has the dual function of lowering uric acid and protecting the kidneys. Chinese medicine is very mild and using such Chinese medicine can help the body recover.

1: Soak your feet in gout hand and foot bath for at least 30 minutes before going to bed at night to relieve pain and dissolve uric acid crystals and excrete them out of the body.

Need to be stable. A gout expert from Shanghai Medical University said: "Since gout is a complication that occurs when blood uric acid increases to a certain level, even if joint pain improves, it does not mean that gout has been cured." Because gout attacks usually become more severe with each attack and take a greater toll on the kidneys, it is especially important to protect the kidneys.