In message <[log in to unmask]>, Kent Dooley
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> Can someone direct me to a Lab which can test for Alcohol Dehydrogenase
> deficiency?
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> Thanks
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> |\ e n t C. Dooley, PhD FCACB
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> Director - Pathology and
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> Head - Biochemistry Section
> IWK Grace Health Center
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> Dalhousie University
> Halifax, Nova Scotia
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One place I worked evaluated a man who claimed alcohol DH deficiency by
an alcohol tolerance test: similar to a glucose tolerance test but using
whisky instead of lucozade.
The patient had been arrested for drink driving and claimed he made his
own alcohol in his gut: things went very well because the alcohol levels
in his blood increased as expected post-whisky, but contined to increase
until he was so drunk that he was unable to speak, let alone hide the
hip flask he had brought with him...
--
Prof. Tim Reynolds,
Professor of Chemical Pathology,
Queen's Hospital,
Burton-on-Trent,
UK.
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