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Mom is 79 has severe gout in the finger joints,?
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Treatable: Severe gout is both preventable and treatable, inexpensively. She needs to get care.
Answered 1/24/2018
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See a rheumatologist: Gout is very treatable and preventable. There is no reason that she needs to continue to suffer. See a rheumatologist.
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