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  2. Auto-brewery syndrome - Wikipedia

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    This disease can have profound effects on everyday life. Symptoms that usually accompany ABS include elevated blood alcohol levels as well as symptoms consistent with alcohol intoxication—such as slurred speech, stumbling, loss of motor functions, dizziness, and belching. [8] Mood changes and other neurological problems have also been ...

  3. Hydrogen sulfide - Wikipedia

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    In the absence of oxygen, sulfur-reducing and sulfate-reducing bacteria derive energy from oxidizing hydrogen or organic molecules by reducing elemental sulfur or sulfate to hydrogen sulfide. Other bacteria liberate hydrogen sulfide from sulfur-containing amino acids; this gives rise to the odor of rotten eggs and contributes to the odor of ...

  4. Phantosmia - Wikipedia

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    Phantosmia (phantom smell), also called an olfactory hallucination or a phantom odor, [1] is smelling an odor that is not actually there. This hallucination is intrinsically suspicious as the formal evaluation and detection of relatively low levels of odour particles is itself a very tricky task in air epistemology.

  5. What’s that stench? Why a ‘rotten egg’ smell is wafting over ...

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    McCurn’s office has received complaints about the rotten egg smell for several weeks. Skip to main content. Subscriptions; Animals. Business. Entertainment. Fitness. Food. Games ...

  6. That rotten egg smell could be a gas leak. What can you do to ...

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    Mercaptan is a harmless chemical that smells like sulfur or rotten eggs that utility companies add to natural gas to make it easier to detect leaks, according to Healthline, a medical information ...

  7. Carson's rotten egg smell is fading, but residents are still ...

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    Hydrogen sulfide, the source of the noxious odor emanating from the Dominguez Channel, has dipped below California s "nuisance" level.

  8. Bad breath - Wikipedia

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    A better way would be to lightly scrape the posterior back of the tongue with a plastic disposable spoon and to smell the drying residue. Home tests that use a chemical reaction to test for the presence of polyamines and sulfur compounds on tongue swabs are now available, but there are few studies showing how well they actually detect the odour ...

  9. Thiol - Wikipedia

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    Thiols are the sulfur analogue of alcohols (that is, sulfur takes the place of oxygen in the hydroxyl (−OH) group of an alcohol), and the word is a blend of "thio-" with "alcohol". Many thiols have strong odors resembling that of garlic , cabbage or rotten eggs.