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'I don't need a pub - I've got a brewery in my BELLY': Teetotaller wakes up with hangover each day because of rare digestive disorder
By EMMA INNES
- Matthew Hogg has auto-brewery syndrome - an overgrowth of yeast in his small intestine produces ethanol from sugary and starchy foods
- He is frequently 'drunk' and wakes up with a hangover every morning
- Has to stick to a natural diet of meat, fish, vegetables and nuts
- This does not eliminate his symptoms but reduces the problem
PUBLISHED: 05:25 EST, 4 October 2013 | UPDATED: 05:27 EST, 5 October 2013
A man has told how he cannot stay sober - as everything he eats turns to alcohol.
Matthew Hogg suffers from a bizarre condition that causes his stomach to brew alcohol every time he tucks into a bag of crisps, sandwich or even a fizzy drink.
The 34-year-old was born with an in-body brewery that went undetected for 20 years meaning he spent years being 'drunk' after eating highly starchy or sugary foods - even when he was at primary school.
The strength of the alcohol his body produces is so powerful that he suffers a hangover every morning and has chronic alcohol poisoning and liver disease.
As a result, he is often bed-bound and suffers from exhaustion.
Teetotal Mr Hogg, of Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, said: ‘Every time I eat bread, potatoes or starchy rice I produce 100 per cent proof drinking alcohol that travels around my body through my bloodstream - if I eat a portion of rice I would suffer a hangover equivalent of having glugged three bottles of red wine the night before.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2443650/I-dont-need-pub--Ive-got-brewery-BELLY-Teetotaller-wakes-hangover-day-rare-digestive-disorder.html
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