Nick Hess suffers from a condition called ‘auto-brewery syndrome’ which means that his body produces too much yeast, causing carbohydrates to turn into alcohol.
Loved ones started to suspect that he had a drinking problem when he would suddenly start acting intoxicated, with his wife even searching the house for his ’booze stash’.
Nick told the BBC: “It was weird, I’d eat some carbs and all of a sudden I was goofy, vulgar. Every day for a year I would wake up and vomit,
"Sometimes it would come on over the course of a few days, sometimes it was just like “bam! I’m drunk."
Nick’s wife Karen Daw told ABC news: "We would be watching television ... and by the end of the evening, he would start to be confused, and he would start slurring. And he did smell like he had alcohol on his breath.
"I went through the entire house looking for alcohol. Anywhere that I think that maybe you could hide a small bottle or a small flask. The painful part was just doubting him.
"It just made me more determined to try and figure out what was going on with him."
Following his diagnosis, Nick managed to get his condition under control with a low carb diet and anti-fungal medication.