Imagine that one day your health suddenly deteriorates and you have to go to the hospital. There the doctor will do various tests on you and say that the reason for your bad health is your excessive drinking.
While you do not even touch alcohol. In such a situation you will get upset and people will again suspect you that you are lying. Something similar happened with a woman from Canada. This woman never used to drink alcohol, but when her health deteriorated, the doctors said that the reason for this was alcohol.
What is the story
This is from Canada. The woman living here, whom the doctors were treating for two years as an alcoholic, in the end the reason for her illness turned out to be something else. Actually, a 50-year-old woman living in Canada was ill for the last two years.
Whenever she reached the hospital for examination, a lot of alcohol was found in her body. In such a situation, the doctor would treat them according to their alcoholism and considering them an alcoholic, would ask them to quit drinking. Whereas, the woman would say that she had never touched alcohol.
How did they come to know about this disease?
When the doctors could not understand this, they contacted Dr. Rachel Jewoode, an infectious disease specialist at the University of Toronto. Dr. Jewoode found in her examination that the woman was sick because of alcohol, but she had not drunk this alcohol from outside. Rather, this alcohol was being produced in her stomach.
Actually, the woman was suffering from a serious and rare disease called auto-brewery syndrome. Due to this disease, there is excessive growth of yeast or bacteria in the gastrointestinal tract of the patient and these yeast and bacteria ferment the carbohydrates from the food and convert them into alcohol.
The woman complained that for the past few years she felt like an intoxicated person. Her whole body was lethargic and she was always feeling sleepy. Dr. Jewoode says that these are the symptoms of auto-brewery syndrome. If you ever feel like this and you do not drink alcohol, then immediately contact a good doctor and get rid of your disease.
