{"id":17903,"date":"2022-08-18T13:00:06","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T13:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/squad\/?p=17903"},"modified":"2022-08-18T13:00:06","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T13:00:06","slug":"can-gout-be-cured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/gout\/can-gout-be-cured\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Gout Be Cured?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gout, a type of arthritis, can\u2019t be cured. However, numerous ways exist to control its symptoms.<\/p>\n<p>The primary way is by changing your diet and taking doctor-prescribed medication.<\/p>\n<p>Although gout is a type of arthritis, it is different from rheumatoid arthritis in its cause, its symptoms and its treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune issue.<\/p>\n<p>This is where the body\u2019s immune system launches an attack on healthy tissue.<\/p>\n<p>Gout is caused by too much uric acid in the blood, which then causes joints to swell.<\/p>\n<h3>Controlling Arthritis<\/h3>\n<p>You can\u2019t control rheumatoid arthritis by diet but you can control gout flare ups with a change in diet.<\/p>\n<p>Diet and changes in habits, such as reducing or eliminating alcohol consumption, reduces uric acid levels in the blood.<\/p>\n<p>That, in turn, reduces symptoms.<\/p>\n<p>Three primary medications are used to treat gout. They are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Colchicine<\/li>\n<li>Corticosteroids<\/li>\n<li>Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Colchicine prevents the uric acid from forming crystals, which settle around joints to cause pain.<\/p>\n<p>Corticosteroids are used for patients where other medications haven\u2019t been effective and NSAIDs include things like ibuprofen and aspirin.<\/p>\n<p>These reduce inflammation and pain caused from gout.<\/p>\n<h3>Surgical Options<\/h3>\n<p>Surgery is an option for gout patients in cases where they are suffering extreme pain, there is a severe<br \/>\ninfection at the gout site or if there is a significant abnormality.<\/p>\n<p>There are three types of surgeries available to reduce gout issues including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Joint fusion where doctors stabilize a joint by fusing it together.<\/li>\n<li>Joint replacement that include things like knee replacements where artificial structures replace affected joints.<\/li>\n<li>Tophi removal where surgeons remove tophi to relieve severe infection, abnormality or discomfort.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Most gout patients never require surgery and learn how to control gout flares with diet, medications and<br \/>\nnatural remedies.<\/p>\n<p>One easy way to relieve or prevent gout symptoms is to drink lots of water and include lemon water into your diet.<\/p>\n<p>Coffee is also known to be a natural remedy for relieving gout symptoms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gout, a type of arthritis, can\u2019t be cured. However, numerous ways exist to control its symptoms. The primary way is by changing your diet and taking doctor-prescribed medication. Although gout is a type of arthritis, it is different from rheumatoid arthritis in its cause, its symptoms and its treatment. Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune issue. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17957,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[711],"tags":[1616,712],"class_list":["post-17903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gout","tag-cure-for-gout","tag-gout"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}