The woman, from Canada, suffered the rare and intriguing condition auto-brewery syndrome, which causes alcohol to be produced in the body, leading to symptoms like slurred speech.
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The woman, from
Canada, suffered the
rare and intriguing condition auto-brewery syndrome, which causes alcohol to be produced in the body, leading to symptoms like slurred speech, sudden sleepiness and blurred vision - as if the patient is intoxicated.
Auto-brewery syndrome is a condition that affects less than 100 people worldwide and causes microbes in the gut to spontaneously convert sugar into
alcohol.
It is thought to be triggered by a poor diet, antibiotics or other factors that lead to a dominance of yeast and other micro-organisms in the gut that help create alcohol.
However it took two years before she was diagnosed, as doctors ignored her insistent claims that she had not been drinking.