1. Use cold compress to relieve pain
If the painful area is red, swollen and hot during a gout attack, you can use cold compress to relieve the pain. Wrapping ice in gauze and applying it to the painful area can constrict blood vessels, prevent excessive swelling, and also achieve pain relief. If you don't have ice cubes, you can soak a towel in cold water and apply it there.
2. Use painkillers rationally
During a gout attack, there will be severe pain, and you may even be unable to walk normally, so patients should prepare painkillers and keep painkillers anywhere. Take the part. However, painkillers should not be taken in large amounts for a long time, otherwise they will increase damage to the liver and kidneys, and even cause renal failure or hepatitis.
3. Elevate the lower limbs
Most gout patients will be accompanied by edema of the lower limbs, and the slightest cold wind will cause unbearable pain. This kind of people can usually raise their lower limbs and put a protective cover to prevent the affected area from being hit, so that the blood in the lower limbs can flow to the heart and relieve their edema and pain.
4. Find ways to eliminate uric acid from the body
Do not eat foods containing high purine, such as animal offal, seafood, alcoholic and pickled foods, as well as foods high in sugar and fat, otherwise it will cause If you have a large amount of uric acid, eat more foods that can eliminate uric acid. Make sure you have at least 2,500 ml of water every day to allow acidic substances to be excreted out of the body with urine.
You can also choose drugs that can inhibit the production of uric acid and drugs that promote uric acid excretion under the guidance of a doctor. High uric acid is the main factor causing gout attacks. You can alkalize your urine and eat more alkaline foods such as green leafy vegetables to neutralize the pH of uric acid. If uric acid is not well controlled, it will cause damage to the kidneys and cause kidney stones or renal failure. Therefore, we must protect the kidneys and maintain the serum uric acid value in a normal state. Go to the hospital for a kidney function test and eat more black food. Food to protect the kidneys.