Auto-Brewery Syndrome: self-brewing beer? No, a weird intestinal syndrome. Some of you will surely have tried to prepare beer at home, perhaps with one of the many kits that are on sale. Here we will not talk about self-brewing beer, but about a rare disease, a strange syndrome that has affected a man in the United States. Perhaps not surprisingly, he was a passionate craft beer producer.
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Some of you will surely have tried to prepare the homemade beer, perhaps with one of the many Kit which are for sale. Here we will not tell you about self-production of beer, but of one rare disease, a strange syndrome that has affected a man in the United States. Not surprisingly, he was a passionate craft beer producer.
Un 61 year old man showed up at an emergency room in the Texas, complaining of dizziness and dizziness. The nurses intervened by administering an alcohol test. The alcohol content was 0,37%, five times the legal limit. However, the man swore that he never touched a drop of beer that day.
The nurses have discovered that the man suffers from a strange syndrome. At any moment, without warning and in any place, he finds himself drunk without having drunk. The situation had now worried her wife to such an extent that she had to buy an alcohol test kit.
Doctors and nurses initially attributed the incident to the fact that the man could drink in secret. But it wasn't like that. The truth came out thanks to Dr. Justin mcarthy, Lubbock's gastroenterologist, who decided to discover the causes of the strange syndrome.
The man was isolated for 24 hours in a hospital room. He was given foods rich in carbohydrates. Doctors tested her alcohol level several times, which at one point had unexpectedly risen to 0,12%. The experts then delved into the matter and discovered the cause: an excessive presence of brewer's yeast in the belly.
In short, the man was potentially capable of brewing beer in your gut. The strange phenomenon was due to ainfection da Saccharomyces cerevisiae. When the man ate a piece of bread or a plate of pasta, or drank a carbonated drink, the yeast present in his body started a real process of fermentation of the sugars, which were transformed into ethanol. This is proof of how yeasts can proliferate in the intestinal tract. The case was officially disclosed to the scientific world through a article published onInternational Journal of Clinical Medicine.
Marta Albè
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