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This agent has been studied in a 14-week trial and showed improvement in gouty symptoms.15 This agent may have a future role in preventing gout attacks when patients are started on a uric acid lowering agent but can take the usual prophylactic agents against the attacks that often are an early result of this therapy (for example, they can't use colchicine)

Even so, the frequency and significance of these observations are presently unclear

Itching that disrupts sleep consistently or doesn't improve after several weeks of self-care warrants investigation

Those are different bets, and only direct comparative trials can settle which performs better in the same patient population