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What Causes Ethanol To Be Present In The System Of A Non-alcoholic?

my daughter has a severely damaged liver has never drank alcohol in her life, she is also a brittel diabetic, she recntly had a drug screen that showed ethanol in her system, this was very upsetting to her, i am a nurse and told her i think this is a corrolation to her illness, is this true facts or i am mistaken, have tried to find paperwork on it and there is so much
Mon, 23 Jul 2018
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Hello and Welcome to ‘Ask A Doctor’ service.
I have reviewed your query and here is my advice.

Ethanol is content of many drugs and beverages and she has consumed some of them that gave a false positive test.
You can redo the test for reassurance.

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What Causes Ethanol To Be Present In The System Of A Non-alcoholic?

Hello and Welcome to ‘Ask A Doctor’ service. I have reviewed your query and here is my advice. Ethanol is content of many drugs and beverages and she has consumed some of them that gave a false positive test. You can redo the test for reassurance. Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.