For the 6 major misunderstandings in gout treatment, many people have been tricked!

Gout is a disease that was relatively rare in the past, but as more and more people now have bad habits, it eventually leads to gout, when gout attacks are painful, but they don't know much about gout, and they don't know how to treat it, so they often rush to the doctor, and there are many misunderstandings about gout attacks.

What are some misconceptions about gout treatment?

1. Use antibiotics as soon as you have an attack

Acute attack of gout, often accompanied by joint redness, swelling, fever, pain, many people think that this is similar to the symptoms of local infection, mistaken for infection and use antibiotics, some people feel that after the use of antibiotics, the symptoms of gout change, in fact, this is because gout is a self-limiting disease, but in fact, antibiotics do not work at all, gout gets better because of the body's own resistance work, not because antibiotics work.

2. Hormones are the most effective

Corticosteroids are the fastest and most effective way to relieve gout attacks, and can only be used for pain relief in patients who are ineffective with conventional analgesics, or who cannot tolerate other analgesics, or if there is a severe recurrence of acute gout, and there is already physical impairment, such as renal impairment. In addition to this, consider traditional pain relievers such as etoposide, ibuprofen, diclofenac sodium, colchicine, etc. Hormones should not be used for a long time, and long-term dependence on hormones for pain relief can bring many side effects, including obesity, high blood pressure, hyperlipidemia, diabetes, osteoporosis, etc.

3. Soak your feet in hot water

Many people see swelling at the attack site during a gout attack and think that they can reduce the swelling with hot compresses, which is actually a big mistake, because hot compresses will only spread inflammatory factors, expand the attack area, and aggravate the condition. During a gout attack, there is usually edema in the painful area, and the attack site should need to be elevated.

4. Exercise regardless of the situation

Many gout patients have mild relief Hearing that exercise can help relieve gout, they will choose exercise, but if the patient has a gout attack on the toes and ankles, then exercise is not only beneficial, but also harmful, because the foot is the stress part of the human body, exercise will aggravate the redness and swelling of the attack site, and the pain will also increase.

5. Uric acid-lowering therapy

The main purpose of gout attack relief is to reduce pain symptoms, and taking uric acid-lowering drugs at this time is very likely to aggravate the pain response and prolong the attack period, because urate-lowering drugs are only used to reduce the uric acid value in the body, not painkillers, and have no effect on relieving pain symptoms. In general, it is appropriate to start taking uric acid-lowering medications two weeks after each gout attack has subsided.

6. Gout is not painful and will not be treated

The pain of a gout attack is unbearable, and if you want to ignore it, you can't ignore it, and many people will actively treat it. But after the symptoms are relieved, it is very undesirable to think that the gout has been cured, and then "let go of yourself", eat and drink, which is very undesirable. The real treatment of high uric acid and gout starts after the symptoms have been relieved, in the acute phase, only basic measures are taken to relieve the symptoms, and the best time for treatment is 2 weeks after the symptoms have been relieved, at this time, the patient needs to take it seriously and start adjusting the medication, diet, exercise.

The 6 conditions mentioned above are the misunderstandings of many patients about gout, and it is not easy to really treat and relieve gout, and patients need to cheer up and take it seriously, even if the symptoms of the gout attack have been relieved, they should not let their guard down.