Can someone become intoxicated without consuming alcohol? This puzzling scenario became reality for a 50-year-old woman in Canada, who visited emergency departments seven times over the past two years with severe symptoms of alcohol intoxication, despite not drinking alcohol on any of these occasions.
Doctors eventually diagnosed the woman with auto-brewery syndrome, a rare condition where the gut microorganism creates alcohol through fermentation, causing intoxication without drinking. This case was detailed in a report published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ)
