A birthday bender turned a young man off alcohol for life after he ended up in hospital with alcohol-induced hypertriglyceridaemia, according to a US case report.

The 28-year-old carpenter presented to the ED with a 48-hour history of nausea and abdominal pain.

Three days earlier he had binged on more than 12 shots after his friends encouraged him to get “lit” for his birthday.   

On examination he was in tachycardia and “markedly” tender to palpation in the epigastric and left upper quadrant of the abdomen, report doctors from the University of Florida College of Medicine in Jacksonville.