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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: 2) by c0lo on Sunday October 27 2019, @06:29AM (1 child)
There has to be something that relates with strong doses of antibiotic in the first stages. Otherwise the yeast has too little chances to survive the competition.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 3, Interesting) by fraxinus-tree on Sunday October 27 2019, @11:12AM
Antibiotics are a good start, but not enough. You have to mess your digestive system enough so it will not kill off everything almost at the start (yeast is particularly sensitive to the low pH in the stomach). Try high dose of proton-pump inhibitor. (Antibiotic combination AND proton-pump inhibitor is how helicobacter infections are treated nowadays. I suppose they do something more to prevent exactly this outcome, but IANAPhysitian.) Well, YMMV. There are common cases where these medications are used for problems unrelated to each other.
You can also try to introduce the yeast to your gut from the "backend". Start by taking a bath of beer. Be sure to have someone to take you out if you mis-estimate the time needed.