How to treat gout ankles

For gout ankle swelling, general treatment, symptomatic treatment and related treatment can be taken.

1. General treatment of

gout caused by ankle swelling, patients can appropriately raise the affected limbs, and use ice packs to help promote vasoconstriction, relieve swelling symptoms.

2. Symptomatic treatment of

acute patients can also be prescribed ibuprofen, celecoxib or colchicine to reduce local inflammatory reaction, relieve local swelling, pain and other discomfort.

3. For gout treatment,

whether blood uric acid level will increase, so patients in the intermittent period and chronic period, also need to follow the doctor's advice for uric acid lowering treatment, commonly used drugs include allopurinol, benzbromarone and febuxostat.