What if your husband just got drunk on a moment’s notice? No liquor required—he just started stumbling around and slurring his words. This sounds like a plot from a story, but it actually happened to a 61-year-old man in Texas recently.
NPR reports that the man “stumbled into a Texas emergency room complaining of dizziness” and, when Breathalyzed, scored a 0.37 percent. That’s five times the legal driving limit in Texas. But he hadn't had a drink. Turns out the man’s own stomach, colonized by brewer’s yeast, was brewing beer—a condition doctors call “auto-brewery syndrome.” The doctors described the case in the International Journal of Clinical Medicine:Gut Fermentation Syndrome also known as Auto-Brewery Syndrome is a relatively unknown phenomenon in modern medicine. Very few articles have been written on the syndrome and most of them are anecdotal.
Monday, September 23, 2013
Guys Stomach brews beer! With no aftertaste.
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