{"title":"Auto-brewery Syndrome","authors":"Nanthini D Kalaiarasan","doi":"10.5005/jp-journals-10084-12157","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Auto-brewery syndrome is a rare medical condition where ethanol is produced by endogenous fermentation in the digestive tract. 1 In this rare medical condition, the intoxication of ethanol is produced by the yeast type Saccharomyces cerevisiae , which is known for its use in the production of bread and alcoholic beverages. 2 It occurs in patients with small bowel syndrome after surgical resection due to the fermentation of malabsorbed carbohydrates. 3,4","PeriodicalId":107391,"journal":{"name":"Pondicherry Journal of Nursing","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2020-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Pondicherry Journal of Nursing","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.5005/jp-journals-10084-12157","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Auto-brewery syndrome is a rare medical condition where ethanol is produced by endogenous fermentation in the digestive tract. 1 In this rare medical condition, the intoxication of ethanol is produced by the yeast type Saccharomyces cerevisiae , which is known for its use in the production of bread and alcoholic beverages. 2 It occurs in patients with small bowel syndrome after surgical resection due to the fermentation of malabsorbed carbohydrates. 3,4