Auto-brewery syndrome (ABS)

[Laird]

A Man Kept Getting Drunk Without Using Alcohol. It Turns Out, His Gut Brews Its Own Booze.

For six long years, a man would experience mysterious bouts of drunkenness without ever drinking a drop of alcohol.

Eventually, he was diagnosed with a rare condition that filled his gut with booze.

The 46-year-old man had auto-brewery syndrome (ABS), a condition that causes bacteria in the gut to transform carbohydrates into intoxicating alcohol, according to a report of the man's case, published Aug. 5 in the journal BMJ Open Gastroenterology. The condition flares up when people consume sugary or carb-heavy foods and beverages, and throws them into a drunken haze just as if they'd knocked back too many beers, the man's doctors wrote.

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