If your sufferring gout in your big toe, is it okay to wrap it with warm cloth?

If your sufferring gout in your big toe, is it okay to wrap it with warm cloth?

Tater's baby
very good idea

michaelsexton1984
wrap in warm cloth to enlarge it, cold will shrink it up

Ladybug
NO! Never use heat on anything swollen; Use ice. My father has gout, & he gets a prescription for Indocin or Indomyacin.

3DDD
If you only get it a couple times a year there is no need to waste your money going to the doctor. Take about 4 ibuprofin every 4 or 5 hours and it will be fine. If it is bad enough you cant walk then you might aught to go - it can get bad enough to loose some toes.

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