What is gout caused by uric acid?

Gout is usually caused by high uric acid, first in the acute phase of patients with oral anti-inflammatory painkillers treatment, commonly used drugs include colchicine, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and glucocorticoids. Patients only need to choose one of them can, the first two of which are the first choice of drugs, only when the treatment effect is not good, consider the application of hormone therapy. For patients entering the intermittent phase, according to the blood uric acid level to choose uric acid treatment. Common uric acid lowering drugs include allopurinol, febuxostat and benzbromarone. Most patients can control their blood uric acid to a normal level, generally below 360umol/L, through reasonable use of drugs and lifestyle adjustment, which can reduce the onset of gout arthritis.