Clinicians who have patients with gut fermentation syndrome should consider treatment with fecal microbiota transplantation, especially if more traditional therapy has failed. Researchers from University Hospital Ghent, Ghent, Belgium describe the first case report showing efficacy of this method for treating the rare syndrome. The case report is published in Annals of Internal Medicine.
Gut fermentation syndrome, also known as auto-brewery syndrome, is a rare condition in which the body produces ethanol in the gut after carbohydrate-rich meals. The condition is problematic because it leads to elevated blood alcohol levels, a feeling of drunkenness, variably disturbed liver function, and other indications of ethanol intoxication.
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