Gout has been identified as early as 2640 BC by the ancient Egyptians, with famous suffers such as composer Ludwig van Beethoven, diplomate Benjamin Franklin, astronomer Galileo Galilei, and physicist Isaac Newton and known as the disease of kings due to prevalence of an indulgent lifestyle, such as consumption of alcohol, fructose-sweetened drinks, meat and other rich foods lead to risk factors of gout. Gout is caused by an excesses amount of uric acid being deposited in needle-like structures in the distal extremities. These depositions cause arthritis, inflammation and pain (1).Uric acid is normally produced by the metabolic breakdown of purines and this product is then dissolved in the blood and passes through to the kidneys where it is
