Woman fights DUI by claiming that her body brews alcohol

[UrbScotty]

Drunken-driving charges against an upstate New York woman have been dismissed based on an unusual defense: Her body is a brewery.

The woman was arrested while driving with a blood-alcohol level more than four times the legal limit. She then discovered she has a rare condition called "auto-brewery syndrome," in which her digestive system converts ordinary food into alcohol, her lawyer Joseph Marusak said in interviews this week.

A town judge in the Buffalo suburb of Hamburg dismissed the drunken-driving charges this month after Marusak presented a doctor's research showing the woman had the previously undiagnosed condition in which high levels of yeast in her intestines fermented high-carbohydrate foods into alcohol.

http://www.wxyz.com/news/national/woman-beats-dui-rap-with-claim-her-body-brews-alcohol

[LiberalEsto]

1. I once had a roommate with this condition

This was more than 45 years ago and it was it miracle that she got accurately diagnosed. Scared the daylights out of her.

[meow2u3]

2. It seems as if she has a yeast infection in her intestines

Good thing her doc prescribed a low carb diet. She could use some antifungal meds to speed up the process.