"James M. Knox" wrote in message
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| (Teacherjh) wrote in
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| The human body manufactures its own alcohol, and it is possible for
| the level of that self-manufactured’ alcohol to almost reach that 20
| milligram level,
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| I'm familiar with this post-mortem. It turns out a LOT of old NTSB
reports
| are in error because they list alcohol as a causal factor in crashes where
| the body was not recovered for several days.
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| Pre-mortem, while it is certainly the case that lots of bacteria do the
job
| of turning (blood) sugar into alcohol, I am not aware of any that do so in
| a living body in any great quantity.

IIRC there was a case several years ago of a Japanese man who appeared to
have a serious drinking problem even though he claimed he never consumed
alcohol. Even complete isolation could not sober him up. Turned out he had
an extremely rare (possibly unique) yeast infection in his stomach that was
producing alcohol.