Is it possible to be drunk without drinking? Former New Jersey resident Mark Mongiardo would assure you it is.
Is it possible to be drunk without drinking?Mongiardo has Auto-Brewery Syndrome, or ABS. It's a rare condition in which the body makes alcohol.He was working as a high school teacher and coach in New Jersey, when staff at the school started complaining he smelled of alcohol."I would never do that. I'm a teacher," Mongiardo told 7 On Your Side Investigates reporter Kristin Thorne. "It was very concerning to me. I really had no idea what was going on.
Mongiardo says, to his surprise, he had a blood alcohol content of .18 or .19. How could that be if he said he hadn't been drinking and didn't feel drunk? Mongiardo was put on paid administrative leave for the last two months of the school year and then administrators informed him his teaching contract wasn't being renewed.
Wickremesinghe took cultures from Mongiardo's intestines, did a blood alcohol content test in a controlled hospital environment and diagnosed Mongiardo with ABS.Dr. Wickremesinghe has been studying ABS since 2014 when he got his first ABS patient. Wickremesinghe is getting ready to release the largest study ever on ABS using the patients he's treated. He says in addition to what he's uncovered about how to test for and treat ABS, he's also found that 60 percent of patients who have ABS suffer from acid reflux and 30 percent have anxiety or depression."My major function now is to have this accepted by the medical community as a way of investigating and treating the patient," he said.
Giannotto says she called more than 100 doctors across the country begging them to take her husband's case. "We were turned away by all of them" she said. "They'd never heard of it, they didn't know what to do, they didn't know how to treat it, they never had a case."A doctor referred her to Dr. Wickremesinghe who began treating Donato Giannotto with anti-fungals through a pick line.
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