Hacker News
- Auto-brewery syndrome: probably an under-diagnosed medical condition https://bmjopengastro.bmj.com/content/6/1/e000325 27 comments
- Case report of a man who appeared drunk and was arrested for drunk driving even though he had never drunk alcohol. He was diagnosed with auto-brewery syndrome, a rare condition where fungal yeast took over his gut microbiome after a course of antibiotics, which fermented carbohydrates to alcohol. https://bmjopengastro.bmj.com/content/6/1/e000325 345 comments science
Linking pages
- Auto-brewery syndrome caused man to produce alcohol in his gut, act drunk https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/auto-brewery-syndrome-caused-man-produce-alcohol-his-gut-act-n1070826 3 comments
- A Man Kept Getting Drunk Without Using Alcohol. It Turns Out, His Gut Brews Its Own Booze. | Live Science https://www.livescience.com/drunk-man-actually-had-autobrewery-syndrome.html 3 comments