Auto Brewery Syndrome Advocacy and Research
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We are here to help. Our non-profit provides advocacy for patients and caregivers, education for healthcare providers, and research into causes and cures for auto-brewery syndrome.
Auto brewery syndrome (ABS) is also known as gut fermentation, auto-intoxication, endogenous ethanol, drunkenness disease, and 酩酊 書 meitei sho. ABS starts with an overgrowth of fermenting yeast or bacteria somewhere in the gut, from mouth to rectum, and sometimes even in the urinary bladder. The fermenting organisms turn carbohydrates and sugars into ethyl alcohol that goes into the bloodstream and makes the person drunk. Often, the person is intoxicated well over the legal limit.
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My Gut Makes Alcohol:
The Science and Stories of
Auto-Brewery Syndrome
This book is the first on Auto-Brewery Syndrome to provide critical understanding for patients, family members, doctors, healthcare providers, law enforcement, and the legal justice system. Dr. Cordell lived the nightmare of ABS with her husband Joe, and relates their journey and others' stories of their difficulties finding help. Science explains what we know, and what we still need to discover to identify and treat this disease.
Proceeds from the book will go toward funding advocacy and research for Auto Brewery Syndrome.
AARP FEATURES ABS
On a May evening in 2016, Scott Evenson ventured out of his Minnesota apartment to a local restaurant for dinner. His wife was out of town, so he requested a table for one, then a burger, fries and a beer — just one beer.
“The next thing I know, I was in the ER,” Evenson, now 57, recalls.
After finishing his meal and returning to his apartment complex, Evenson passed out in the lobby. He woke up in a hospital in downtown St. Paul the next morning, confused, especially when a doctor told him he’d had alcohol poisoning, with a blood alcohol level of 0.314 percent — almost quadruple the legal driving limit.
Evenson, an aspiring pastor at the time, was mortified. He swore he’d had only one beer, but the doctor wasn’t convinced. It was the first time a doctor accused Evenson of abusing alcohol. It wouldn’t be the last.
Please read the entire ARTICLE here and share with any providers you know!
E-mail us for more information about autobrewery syndrome:
barbaracordell@autobrewery.org or MichelleGiannotto@autobrewery.org
ABS T-Shirts
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