Allopurinol part 2
o allopurinol does not do anything to the uric acid you already havein your system.
Then why is is effective on gout?
Because it stops the formation of new uric acid. Remember, your bodyis in a steady state of digesting food to make urate and digestingitself to make urate and this urate load is usually handled by thekidney and excreted when it is made. In us gout sufferers, forwhatever reason, and there could be a multiple set of reasons, theexcretion part, does not work as it should. Some people have aelevated rate of making the uric acid, but even these people end uphaving excess uric acid in their system and must get rid of it.
Thus, allopurinol stops the production of new uric acid. It doesnothing for the removal or breakdown of the uric acid you alreadyhave.