RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Homeopathy-medicine induced severe alcoholic hepatitis
JF BMJ Case Reports
JO BMJ Case Reports
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd
SP e229627
DO 10.1136/bcr-2019-229627
VO 12
IS 5
A1 Philips, Cyriac Abby
A1 Augustine, Philip
A1 Paramaguru, Rajaguru
A1 Ahamed, Rizwan
YR 2019
UL http://casereports.bmj.com/content/12/5/e229627.abstract
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.