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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
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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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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.
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