Gout Prevention

Resources

Stop Gout Information in English (updated 2014)

Stop Gout Information in Samoan (updated 2014)

Stop Gout Information in Tongan (updated 2014)

Are you at Risk of Gout? (Update 2014)

Patient Information in Tongan

Patient Information  in Samoan

Pharmac's Out with Gout guide:

 Out with Gout in English

 Out with Gout in Samoan

 Out with Gout in Tongan

 

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  Treating and preventing gout in 7 minutes - for diabetics. Added March 2016

  Treating and preventing gout in 7 minutes - for non-diabetics. Added March 2016

 Health Literacy Information for people with gout. Added June 2014


Medsafe datasheet on ADENURIC® (febuxostat)

Consumer medicine Information on ADENURIC® (febuxostat)

An alternative treatment when difficulties with allopurinol occur:
ADENURIC® (febuxostat) by Menarini Ltd launched in New Zealand in 2013. ADENURIC® is the first new chronic gout treatment in more than 40 years and is registered in New Zealand as a first line treatment. The urate-lowering therapy is well tolerated without dose adjustment in gout patients suffering from mild or moderate renal impairment.