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Gout

Gout · ICD-10: M10.9

Symptoms

• Sudden severe joint pain, often at night
• Usually one or a few joints (often the big toe)
• Warm, red, very tender joint
• Sometimes fever
• Attacks last days and may recur

MedlinePlus · Symptoms

Drugs and regimens

Allopurinol⚠ Unverified

Gout (urate lowering) — start 100 mg/day, weekly increases

Colchicine⚠ Unverified

Gout flare — 1.2 mg, then 0.6 mg one hour later

Colchicine⚠ Unverified

Gout flare prophylaxis — >16 y: 0.6 mg once or twice daily

Naproxen⚠ Unverified

Acute gout — 750 mg, then 250 mg every 8 h