Treating inflammation during a flare

Guidelines discuss anti-inflammatory categories such as colchicine, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, and glucocorticoids. Kidney function, heart and stomach risks, interactions, allergies, and timing can change what is appropriate.

Reducing urate over time

For people who meet treatment criteria, urate-lowering therapy is used preventively and adjusted by a clinician using serial serum urate and safety monitoring. It is not an immediate pain reliever.

  • Do not borrow someone else’s flare medicine
  • Do not start, stop, or change a prescription from web content
  • Bring prescriptions, over-the-counter medicines, and supplements to the review
Primary and clinical sources

Read the evidence

GoutCura summarizes sources; it does not replace the full guideline, device labeling, or clinician judgment.

ACR 2020 Gout GuidelineNICE: Gout diagnosis and management