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What is best for gout; heat or ice?
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Heat helps gout: Gout is about chronic joint inflammation. Heat helps chronic inflammation best.
Answered 3/26/2013
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Ice: Ice improves pain from gout attacks, in contrast to the pain from other kinds of inflammatory arthritis like rheumatoid arthritis and psoriatic arthritis which generally improve with heat.
Answered 9/28/2016
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