No beer, alcohol still ... drunk and broken liver for incredible reasons

A team of scientists from China and the United States has identified Klebsiella pneumoniae, a bacterium and "smoky brewer" that exists in the intestine of many patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.

According to the lead author, Professor-Dr. Jing Yuan, a microbiologist at the Capital Pediatrics Institute (Beijing, China), the work started from a special case a few years ago: a young male of 27 years old, after when eating a meal full of starch and sugar, not using a drop of beer, any wine suddenly had to be hospitalized because . too drunk.

Do not drink beer, alcohol, many people still have liver damage due to a "smuggler" in the gut - (artwork from the internet).

Since then, scientists have discovered the hidden person in his gut: Klebsiella pneumoniae has secretly cooked flour, sugar into alcohol right in the body. After the meal, the patient was intoxicated by the amount of alcohol equivalent to 15 shots of 40% alcohol whiskey (each shot is equivalent to 1 glass of jackfruit seed).

This is an important finding because Klebsiella pneumoniae has long been known but considered harmless in the gut. Further experiments on mice conducted at Duke University (North Carolina, USA) showed that mice fed Klebsiella pneumoniae and given alcohol had the same liver damage after some time.

The team also sampled bacteria in more than 40 people with non-alcoholic fatty liver and 50 others for control. Results showed that the amount of Klebsiella pneumoniae in people with non-alcoholic fatty liver, although only a little more than the average population, but most of the strains Klebsiella pneumoniae have the ability to produce alcohol more strongly than their peers. .

Because Klebsiella pneumoniae "cooks alcohol " with starch-sugar food ingredients, the more patients eat these foods, the more alcohol is produced, the more fat accumulates in the liver and causes liver damage. although they may be people who have never used alcohol.

"In the early stages, fatty liver is reversible. If we identify the cause early, we can treat it properly and prevent liver damage," said author Yuan. People with non-alcoholic steatohepatitis related to Klebsiella pneumoniae are given antibiotics to kill the bacteria, plus diet changes.