Is it Necessary to Take Drugs after Gout Onset?

Some patients complain the relapse of gout pain and we did some researches on the reason. Generally speaking, with the common medicines, gout pain can be treated well. If there is no affective factors, such as inflammation, diet, podagra seldom relapse. According to clinical practice, most patients stop taking medicines after the reliving of gout pain. Is it necessary to take drugs after gout onset?

Is it necessary to take drugs after gout onset? Before answering the question, it is necessary for you to know more about the disease. Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are widely used for treating the inflammation of podagra. If you can not take NSAIDs, your doctors may give you colchicine which can relive the pain quickly. In addition, corticosteroid medications are also familiar to patients with podagra. All these medicines are mainly for gout pain, the preventing the development of tophi from urinate crystal deposits.

When you are suffering the gout onset, you will take these medicines. However, is it necessary to take drugs after gout onset? Anti-gout drugs can relieve pain promptly. In fact, suddenly decreasing blood uric acid can bring more severe pain, that's why allopurinol can not be taken in the attack stage, many patients take anti-gout drugs at the beginning of attack stage, and stop it after blood uric acid decreases, and they think that the podagra pain will not relapse. In fact, sudden change of blood uric acid level, even if blood uric acid level is decreasing, also leads to sudden onset of podagra pain. So, blood uric acid level should be controlled well, because sudden decrease can make the surface of smaller tophus in the joints be dissolved and form undissolvable needle-shaped crystals which increase joint damage. For these cases, Chinese medicine can increase urine volume and strengthen health, which is very good, but it is still necessary to continue the treatment, which is the safest way to maintain stable blood uric acid level, and is helpful to recovery.

Many patients worry about the side effects of these medicines, so they choose stop the medicines. In fact, the best way is to choose a natural treatment to replace the medicines, and then reduce the medicines gradually. There are many traditional Chinese treatments can help treat gout. You can contact with us for more information.

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Giusy Bosco has published 53 articles. Article submitted on August 28, 2013. Word count: 385

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