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Drink drive charge dropped for woman whose ‘body is a brewery’

Another case involved a man who stumbled into a Texas emergency room with a blood alcohol content of 0.37 percent, insisting that he had not had a sip of alcohol.

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Researching the internet, Marusak came across Dr. Barbara Cordell, who had written a study about what she called Auto-brewery syndrome. 379 and then. 40 – extremely high levels.


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As United Press International reports, on October 11, 2014, a 35-year-old woman, whose name has not been made public, was pulled over in Hamburg, New York, for driving erratically. “But I knew something was amiss when the hospital police took the woman to wanted to release her immediately because she wasn’t exhibiting any symptoms”.


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The woman, who can not be named due to reasons of medical confidentiality, had her case dismissed on Dec 9.

The rare condition, also known as gut fermentation syndrome, was first documented in the 1970s in Japan, and both medical and legal experts in the USA say it is being raised more frequently in drunken-driving cases as it is becomes more known. However, the woman was found to have a rare condition called “auto-brewery syndrome”, which makes her digestive system convert the food she eats into alcohol. “Never felt tipsy. Nothing”, he said.

However, the woman was charged with driving while intoxicated when a breath test showed her blood-alcohol content to be 0.33 per cent.

The legal threshold for drunkenness in NY is 0.08. She gets a flat close to home but doesn’t want to change the tire so keeps on driving. ‘She had no idea she had this condition.

“I hired two physician assistants and a person trained in Breathalyzers to watch her and take blood alcohol levels over a 12-hour period and had it run at the same lab used by the prosecution”, said Marusak.

“That’s when she started to feel a bit wobbly on her feet”.

“You could recommend a low carbohydrate diet and in some cases that has worked to reverse the symptoms”, Peek said, stressing that these treatments have not been proven for every patient.

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The Erie County District Attorney’s Office plans to appeal the judge’s decision to dismiss the charges, said The Buffalo News. While that works for some, Cordell says, others relapse or find little relief.

Report: DWI charges dropped against Buffalo-area woman whose body acts as 'brewery'