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Sixty pint beer binge leads to four-week hangover

It may be the longest hangover in the history of binge beer drinking. When a 37-year old man walked into a hospital emergency room in Glasgow, Scotland last October complaining of "wavy" vision and a non-stop headache that had lasted four weeks, doctors were at first stumped, the British journal The Lancet reported Friday.

The unnamed patient "had no history of head injury or loss of consciousness; his past medical record was unremarkable, and he was taking no medications," Zia Carrim and two other physicians from Southern General Hospital said in a case report.

Body temperature and blood pressure were both normal, and a neurological exam scanned negative.

But when an eye specialist was called in, the fog began to clear, at least for the doctors.

The patient, said the ophthalmologist, had swollen optical discs, greatly enlarged blind spots and what eye doctors call "flame haemorrhages," or bleeding nerve fibres.

"We sought a more detailed history" from the patient, noted Zia drly.

That is when the man revealed he had consumed some 60 pints -- roughly 35 litres -- of beer over a four day period, following a domestic crisis.

Severe dehydration caused the alcohol, the doctors guessed, had led to a rare condition called cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST). A scan of the brain's blood vessels confirmed the diagnosis.

CVST -- which can cause seizures, impaired consciousness, loss of vision and neurological damage -- strikes three or four people per million, mainly children, every year in Britain. The cause is generally unknown.

It took more than six months of long-term blood-thinning treatment to restore the man's normal vision -- and to get rid of the headache, the doctors reported.
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I'm sure I've consumed that much over a period of 4 days before. Granted I'll have been 18-20, but still, this guy sounds like a right nancy. :p
 
15 pints a day, I could do that for a fortnight :D

If it was weaker stuff I could do it with ease, I can go through about 18 pints of fosters on a night sometimes. Fosters is barely beer, but it's refreshing because of its wateryness.
 
thats scary but kinda cool at the same time!

I dont drink much at all really, 60 pints tho.. :eek:
 
pitchfork said:
15 pints a day, I could do that for a fortnight :D

If it was weaker stuff I could do it with ease, I can go through about 18 pints of fosters on a night sometimes. Fosters is barely beer, but it's refreshing because of its wateryness.
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18 pints eh.... SUUUURRE you can :)
 
Pft I've drank over a litre of whiskey in under half an hour, IV drips are the best cure for a hangover, by 6 pm the next day no more hangover (out of hospital at 3pm :) )

Ahhh the joys of stupidity and youth.
 
it may average out to 15 pints per day but he may have had 1 pint on each of the first 3 days and said sod it, and drank 57 pints on his fourth day.:D
 
I'm not sure whether to be proud or ashamed that it is a Glaswegian holding the record for the Worlds longest hangover. Scotland are already the second fattest nation in the World after America apparantly.
 
What about that uber big Barry bloke from brum, Hammond from Top Gear did a documentary about his body, on a night out he has ordered the entire menu from a Curry house as well as downing 30+ Pints... how he isnt dead I do not know...

And a 4 week hangover yikes.
 
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