Woman naturally urinates booze due to rare condition where it brews in bladder
The 61-year-old patient from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, had signs of liver damage and poorly controlled diabetes. Doctors had thought it was due to a drinking problem
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Doctors Have Reported an Extremely Rare Case of a Person Who Urinates Alcohol
5 APRIL 2021
A woman in Pittsburgh has become the first documented case in a living person of an unusual medical condition where alcohol naturally brews in the bladder from the fermentation of yeast.
The condition, which researchers propose to call either bladder fermentation syndrome or urinary auto-brewery syndrome , is similar to another incredibly rare condition, auto-brewery syndrome, where simply ingesting carbohydrates can be enough to make you inebriated, even without consuming any alcohol via regular means.
In the case, doctors became aware of what seems to be a related syndrome, after attending upon a 61-year-old patient who presented with liver damage and poorly controlled diabetes.