Dad of two Mark Mongiardo lost his high school teaching jobs because he smelled like booze, despite never drinking on the job.
Mark Mongiardo, of Estero, Florida, said his symptoms first emerged in 2006 when he was a high school teacher and coach in New Jersey, where coworkers began complaining that he reeked of alcohol despite the fact that he never drank at work.
Mark Mongiardo suffers from Auto-Brewery Syndrome — a condition where his body produces alcohol in his gut.“I had pending felony charges. You know, I was facing prison time for two DWIs when I had not been drinking.” Answers finally arrived when Mongiardo visited Wickremesinghe, who has been fascinated by ABS since he first encountered it in 2014.
Wickremesinghe added that he is working to raise awareness of ABS in the medical community in order to help identify more possible patients — and to hopefully establish a framework for diagnosing and treating the condition.Mongiardo first suspected something was wrong while he served as a physical education teacher and assistant basketball coach at the New Milford High School in New Jersey.“I would never do that. I’m a teacher,” Mongiardo said. “I really had no idea what was going on.
And it happened again in 2019 when he was pulled over for driving while using his cellphone, with the later incident reaching his employer.
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