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Related: About this forumAuto-Brewery Syndrome: Apparently, You Can Make Beer In Your Gut
...A 61-year-old man with a history of home-brewing stumbled into a Texas emergency room complaining of dizziness. Nurses ran a Breathalyzer test. And sure enough, the man's blood alcohol concentration was a whopping 0.37 percent, or almost five times the legal limit for driving in Texas.
There was just one hitch: The man said that he hadn't touched a drop of alcohol that day.
"He would get drunk out of the blue on a Sunday morning after being at church, or really, just anytime," says Barabara Cordell, the dean of nursing at Panola College in Carthage, Texas. "His wife was so dismayed about it that she even bought a Breathalyzer." ...... the team searched the man's belongings for liquor and then isolated him in a hospital room for 24 hours. Throughout the day, he ate carbohydrate-rich foods, and the doctors periodically checked his blood for alcohol. At one point, it rose 0.12 percent.
..........The patient had an infection with Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Cordell says. So when he ate or drank a bunch of starch a bagel, pasta or even a soda the yeast fermented the sugars into ethanol, and he would get drunk. Essentially, he was brewing beer in his own gut. Cordell and McCarthy reported the case of "auto-brewery syndrome" a few months ago in the International Journal of Clinical Medicine.
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There was just one hitch: The man said that he hadn't touched a drop of alcohol that day.
"He would get drunk out of the blue on a Sunday morning after being at church, or really, just anytime," says Barabara Cordell, the dean of nursing at Panola College in Carthage, Texas. "His wife was so dismayed about it that she even bought a Breathalyzer." ...... the team searched the man's belongings for liquor and then isolated him in a hospital room for 24 hours. Throughout the day, he ate carbohydrate-rich foods, and the doctors periodically checked his blood for alcohol. At one point, it rose 0.12 percent.
..........The patient had an infection with Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Cordell says. So when he ate or drank a bunch of starch a bagel, pasta or even a soda the yeast fermented the sugars into ethanol, and he would get drunk. Essentially, he was brewing beer in his own gut. Cordell and McCarthy reported the case of "auto-brewery syndrome" a few months ago in the International Journal of Clinical Medicine.
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http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/09/17/223345977/auto-brewery-syndrome-apparently-you-can-make-beer-in-your-gut
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Auto-Brewery Syndrome: Apparently, You Can Make Beer In Your Gut (Original Post)
MADem
Sep 2013
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liberal N proud
(60,335 posts)1. Just think of the possibilities if you could only control it!
MADem
(135,425 posts)2. Really--save a beer drinker a fortune in "beer money" alone!
"I'll have a glass of water---no, I'm not the designated driver, I just have a brewery in me belly!"
Initech
(100,079 posts)3. Duplicate thread
MADem
(135,425 posts)4. Hic.....it's so good it's repeating itself!!!!! nt