Question

A hospital patient was regularly found to be intoxicated. He denied that he was drinking alcoholic beverages. The doctors and nurses made a special point to eliminate the possibility that the patient or his friends were smuggling alcohol into his room, but he was still regularly intoxicated. Then, one of the doctors had an idea that turned out to be correct and cured the patient of his intoxication. The idea involved the patient’s digestive system and one of the oxidative reactions covered in this chapter. What was the doctor’s idea?

Answer 1

They put the patient on a diet that was low in carbohydrate and high in protein.

Step-by-step explanation:

The patient was suffering from gut fermentation syndrome, also known as "autobrewery syndrome," in which yeasts in the stomach ferment the carbohydrates to ethanol.

The condition can produce enough ethanol to make a person intoxicated.