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What medication can one use for gout, if you have porphyria? as you can't use any anti inflamatory meds with porphyria... please help
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Gout : You can us a medication for acute gout called colcrys(colchicine). There are medications to help prevent gout attacks called allopurinol.
Answered 9/20/2015
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