An apple (cider vinegar) a day doesn’t keep the liver injury at bay: case report

The patient believed it would reduce his hyperlipidaemia and mild fatty liver disease.

A 60-year-old man drank apple cider vinegar to treat his hyperlipidaemia, only to end up with a drug-induced liver injury, doctors report.

For four years, their patient consumed about 30mL of apple cider vinegar — acetic acid — each day, believing it would reduce his hyperlipidaemia and mild fatty liver disease.

He presented to the Al Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza complaining of acute pain in the upper-right quadrant.

He had also been experiencing anorexia, clay-coloured stools, tea-coloured urine and jaundice for a week, the doctors report in Oxford Medical Case Reports.

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