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Man kept getting drunk without drinking. Docs found brewer's yeast in his guts
After years of inexplicably getting drunk without drinking alcohol, having mood swings and bouts of aggression, landing a DWI charge on the way to work one morning, and suffering a head injury in a drunken fall, an otherwise healthy 46-year-old North Carolina man finally got confirmation of having alcohol-fermenting yeasts overrunning his innards, getting him sloshed any time he ate carbohydrate-laden meals.
Through the years, medical professionals and police officers refused to believe he hadn't been drinking. They assumed the man was lying to hide an alcohol problem. Meanwhile, he went to an untold number of psychiatrists, internists, neurologists, and gastroenterologists searching for answers.
Those answers only came after he sought help from a support group online and then contacted a group of researchers at Richmond University Medical Center in Staten Island, New York.
By then, it was September of 2017—more than seven years after his saga began. The New York researchers finally confirmed that he had a rarely diagnosed condition called "auto-brewery syndrome."
(Score: 4, Insightful) by legont on Saturday October 26 2019, @05:16PM (3 children)
Yep, it is a well documented illness. Our legal system does not give a fuck and simply punishes the most probable target. It is, by the way, by design. No system can be fair and check all the cases. Hence the strategy of a common men - be the smallest, most difficult target. Let them idiots take the heat. After awhile, fascism takes root.
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 26 2019, @06:44PM
unless
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 26 2019, @07:03PM
Legal system does give a fuck, but it's up to you to prove it's a medical condition *and* up to you to fix your medical condition. You are not allowed to drive under influence. How you get into the state of influence is immaterial. But with diagnosis ex post facto, you can at least indicate mitigating circumstances.
For example, driving fast to hospital because you are transporting a gravely ill person requiring medical attention. You are not allowed to speed, but these would be mitigating circumstances where you are less likely to get in trouble.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Sunday October 27 2019, @06:25AM
The evidence presented so far require the additional qualifying of "well documented on SoylentNews illness".
If only those cops would read us!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford