There are medical mysteries, and then there are medical mysteries. The kind that take more than "mere" med-school-learning to figure out.
This is definitely one of the latter:
Bizzare! Surely this man must have found some way to smuggle some booze past the nurses. It's not like he could be, I dunno, brewing beer in his belly or something. Haha, that'd be something!Glen Tickle on geekosystem.com wrote:The 61-year-old Texas man went into an emergency room with complaints of dizziness, and when nurses gave him a breathalyzer he blew a 0.37. He was drunk — real drunk — but claimed he hadn’t had a drop to drink that day.
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To eliminate the possibility of him lying about secretly drinking alcohol they confined him to a hospital room for 24 hours and searched all his belongings for booze. During his alcohol-free day in the hospital, the man’s BAC hit 0.12, well over the legal limit to drive.
Wait, WHAT?!?! Does that mean what I think it means???Glen Tickle on geekosystem.com wrote:The man brews his own beer at home, and the yeast managed to set up shop in his guts, which they don’t normally do. Brewer’s Yeast is common in many foods, and typically does what you expect food to do– pass through. In rare cases, however, it can stick around in the intestines where it continues to do its thing.
The best one, indeed. No need to worry about keeping the fridge stocked, or whether you're barred from the local watering hole. Not even any need to work your way through the available brews to find the best one - just make your own! Not even any need to handle the beer-flavor, which many people actually don't much like. Get drunk with anything sugary - coke, yoohoo, a nice cup of tea with milk and sugar!Glen Tickle on geekosystem.com wrote:Since its thing happens to be converting sugar to alcohol, whenever the man ate or drank something the yeast could convert, he wound up getting drunk. It’s called “Auto-brewery syndrome” and as far as syndromes go, it might be the best one.
Of course, it's the perfect thing for the terminally lazy - not just no need to worry about stocking the fridge, not even any need to stock it, schlepp crates from the supermarket. Heck, not even that most basic requirement, getting a beer from the fridge, opening the can or bottle and swallowing. Nope, it becomes integrated with any other necessary eating and/or drinking.
Of course, consider that beer after work. That gloriously chilled, tall, blonde one. The one you're looking forward too most of the day, the reward after all the shit you've gotta take at work, the trigger for that glorious dopamine rush that, for a brief moment, makes the world seem alright. None of that!
Just like Syndrome said: If everyone is special ... no one is. If every piece of food or drink gets turned into beer, the special treat at the end of the day isn't that anymore. It's not even meaningless, as it is for a drunkard who even starts his day with it. It's pointless, surplus to requirements.
I do hope they can help this fella out with antibiotics. Brewer's yest is quite common, so common, it'll probably get mixed up with antibiotics in some person somewhere every day, producing resistant strains. I hope for him his is just a regular, non-resistant strain. Though antibiotics, some more than others, can cause bad reactions when mixed with alcohol. He'd probably have to live entirely carb-free for a few days, poor fellow. Imagine that. The doctor explaining that, to get healthy, you must first diet - and prescribes all bacon, all the time!
