Allopurinol Tablet is used for the long-term treatment and prevention of gout. Taken regularly, it can stop attacks of gout and help prevent damage to your joints.
Allopurinol Tablet works by lowering the amount of urate in your blood. Because of this, it’s sometimes called a urate lowering therapy (ULT). Once your urate level is low enough, new crystals will stop forming and existing crystals will slowly dissolve.
Because it can take a long time to dissolve the crystals, you may have more attacks of gout while this is happening. This is more likely if your urate levels are very high to begin with, or if you have had gout for a long time.
