This patient was done for drink-driving years after giving up
His stomach was brewing beer thanks to an antibiotic-induced fungal growth: US case report
When patients claim they haven’t touched a drop despite signs of inebriation they could be telling the truth, based on the case of a US ‘drunk driver’ whose stomach was effectively brewing beer.
The 46-year-old abstainer, who was arrested for presumed drink-driving and hospitalised after refusing a breathalyser analysis, was eventually found to be suffering from auto-brewery syndrome (ABS), according to doctors from the Richmond University Medical Center in New York.
