PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Philips, Cyriac Abby
AU  - Augustine, Philip
AU  - Paramaguru, Rajaguru
AU  - Ahamed, Rizwan
TI  - Homeopathy-medicine induced severe alcoholic hepatitis
AID  - 10.1136/bcr-2019-229627
DP  - 2019 May 01
TA  - BMJ Case Reports
PG  - e229627
VI  - 12
IP  - 5
4099  - http://casereports.bmj.com/content/12/5/e229627.short
4100  - http://casereports.bmj.com/content/12/5/e229627.full
SO  - BMJ Case Reports2019 May 01; 12
AB  - We present a teetotaler with compensated non-alcoholic fatty-liver-disease related cirrhosis who presented with acute worsening of his chronic liver disease. The acute event was not discernible even after extensive work up and finally a transjugular liver biopsy revealed features suggestive of severe alcoholic hepatitis. The patient and the family denied occult alcohol use when questioned over multiple times and finally, the culprit ‘alcohol’ was found to be the homoeopathy medicines that the patient was consuming over a month for treatment of Gilbert’s syndrome. We retrieved and tested the homoeopathy drug for alcohol content and found an alarming 18% ethanol in the same, confirming our diagnosis.