She didn't drink, but her urine was full of alcohol. Turns out, her bladder was its own brewery.
Doctors tried to treat a woman looking for a liver transplant for addiction after results showed her urine was full of alcohol.The problem: She denied ever drinking a drop.Medical professionals at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine discovered that the 61-year-old woman wasn’t trying to hide an alcohol-use disorder but had a rare medical condition called auto-brewery syndrome, or ABS.In a case study published in the peer-reviewed Annals of […]
