have you suffered any trauma to your body recently to suddenly casue a flare up? Are you taking any blood pressure meds or dieuretics, teas, coffee, soda etc? Those things can casue your body to produce more uric acid than your kidneys can get out. Are you drinking enough fluids? You can drink fruit and vegetable juices to help this and maybe do a kidney flush. Celery juice or Celery Seed Tea is especially good.

Losing weight will help but dont lose it quickly because that can bring on acute gout also. You might want to only eat a vegetarian diet while watching you bread in take for a few weeks.

have you heard about Guaifenesin? Apparently it has been a treatment for gout but
now is being used to treat fibromyalgia. I don't know much about it, but I've been
reading about it.
Hope it's helpful.
Ramona

Not sure if you are still seeking information about gout but you may find the research of YQ Chang and associates, Boston University Medical School, (2006) to be of interest. If you use a search engine, you are likely to find the text of their study ("High Humidity and High Temperature Increase the Risk of Recurrent Gout Attacks").

The following url will take you to the online (and ongoing) survey that is being done by these researchers into risk factors and gout.

https://dcc2.bumc.bu.edu/goutstudy/GoutConsentForm.aspx?sf=2


Perhaps you can learn from them -- and they from you.

Fast remedy for gout attack: take 1 tsp of baking soda in a glass of water twice a day. This should fix you up within 1-3 days. However, do keep in mind to avoid what caused your gout in the first place. This is rather late info for you, but should be kept as reference.