Posted on 09/18/2013 10:18:11 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows
This medical case may give a whole new meaning to the phrase "beer gut."
A 61-year-old man — with a history of home-brewing — stumbled into a Texas emergency room complaining of dizziness. Nurses ran a Breathalyzer test. And sure enough, the man's blood alcohol concentration was a whopping 0.37 percent, or almost five times the legal limit for driving in Texas.
There was just one hitch: The man said that he hadn't touched a drop of alcohol that day.
"He would get drunk out of the blue — on a Sunday morning after being at church, or really, just anytime," says , the dean of nursing at Panola College in Carthage, Texas. "His wife was so dismayed about it that she even bought a Breathalyzer."
Other medical professionals chalked up the man's problem to "closet drinking." But Cordell and Dr. Justin McCarthy, a gastroenterologist in Lubbock, wanted to figure out what was really going on.
So the team searched the man's belongings for liquor and then isolated him in a hospital room for 24 hours. Throughout the day, he ate carbohydrate-rich foods, and the doctors periodically checked his blood for alcohol. At one point, it rose 0.12 percent.
Eventually, McCarthy and Cordell pinpointed the culprit: an overabundance of brewer's yeast in his gut.
That's right, folks. According to Cordell and McCarthy, the man's intestinal tract was acting like his own internal brewery.
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This could wreck havoc with the drunk driving scheme the govt runs (to make money and eventually ban all levels of alcohol in the blood).
A by-product of fermentation is gas - lots of it. He must have belched or farted like mad.
There is only one solution.
Ban Texas. This could never happen in Rhode Island.
Brews beer in his gut, constant belching and farting - he is the God of Guys!
We can hope.
Just how many FReep names does this guy go by, anyway?
> > “He would get drunk out of the blue — on a Sunday
morning after being at church, or really, just
anytime,”
> Just how many FReep names does this guy go by, anyway?
Dunno, but I’m pretty sure about one of them.
Gotta be a *Bubba* in there .....somewhere.
I remember reading a similar story about a Japanese man way back in the early 1980s. The story was in a now-defunct science and sci-fi magazine called “Omni”. I took it with a sizable grain of salt (Omni wasn’t always the most reliable magazine on the science fact side of things), but it appears that it really can happen.
I can’t tell my son’s about this, they would try brewers yeast by the bucket.
I think this happens with cows.
He better be careful. The BATF will try to tax him.
Oh, it only takes a teaspoon of active yeast, but you’d also need to swallow a pint of malt syrup (and maybe some hops for flavor).
Just thinking of that makes my belly hurt... you’d blow up like a balloon with all the carbon dioxide that combo would create!
Another reason for a low carbohydrate diet?
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