Imagine that it's afternoon, and you are pulled over by a police officer because a tail light is out, which you didn’t realize. He is pleasant when he comes to the door and you think you’re going to be given a warning. Then he stops and frowns. He asks you to get out of the car and has you perform a field sobriety test. You submit to a breathalyzer and find yourself in the back of the police car being arrested for a DWI because of an elevated blood alcohol concentration. The problem is, you haven’t had any alcohol to drink today. Or yesterday for that matter. Listen this week as Lynne describes a rare medical condition that wreaks legal havoc on the affected person’s life.
Advocacy at: www.autobrewery.org
Special note: Dr. Helen Shui is truly a doctor, but is working under a pseudonym for privacy reasons. Dr. Lynne Kramer is using her real name.
Music by Helen Shui and Caplixo. Cover art by Lynne Kramer.
Sources:
Auto-Brewery Syndrome: A schematic for Diagnosis and Appropriate Treatment by Fahad Malik, Prasanna Wickremesinghe, and Atif Saleem
Auto-brewery syndrome: Everything you need to know by Jamie Eske
A Case Study of Gut Fermentation Syndrome (Auto Brewery) with Saccharomyces cerevisiae as the Causative Organism by Barbara Cordell & Justin McCarthy
Drunk Without Drinking: A Case of Auto-brewery Syndrome by Bobak J. Akhavan, Luis Ostrosky-Zeichner, and Eric J. Thomas
Understanding Auto-Brewery Syndrome in 2023: A Clinical and Comprehensive Review of a Rare Medical Condition by Jananthan Paramsothy, Sai Dheeraj Gutlapalli, Vijay Durga Pradeep Ganipineni, Ikpechukwu J Okoris, Derek Ugwendum, GianPaolo Piccione, James Ducey, Gnama Kouyate, Arnold Onana, Louis Emmer, Vaithilingam Arulthasan, Philip Otterbeck, & Jay Nfonoyim
Fatty Liver Disease Caused by High-Alcohol-Producing Klebsiella pneumoniae by Jing Yuan, et al.
Alcoholic Liver Disease by Roshan Patel & Matthew Mueller.
Fecal Transplant, no byline
Rupture of the Stomach of an African Child by RG Ladkin & JNP Davies
Man details symptoms of auto-brewery syndrome, where his body makes alcohol by Maghan HJolohan
Drunk without drinking: local doctor and patients detail life with Auto-Brewery Syndrome by Kristin Thorne
Auto-Brewery Syndrome: Apparently, You Can Make Beer In Your Gut by Michaeleen Doucleff
The man who gets drunk on chips by Helen Thomson
Woman claims her body brews alcohol, has DUI charge dismissed by Sandee LaMotte
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