They took his license, because he was losing weight
Is it possible, that a few days of weight loss could cost you the loss of your driving license? Everything is possible in Łódź! This is exactly what happened to Józef Bereżewski. The man lost his driving license for five months, bo alcohol test, which he was examined shortly after the road accident, showed in the exhaled air 0,28 alcohol per mille (the acceptable standard in Poland is 0,2 per mille). But Mr. Józef has not had a single gram of beer in his mouth for many months, not to mention stronger drinks! So why such a result from the breathalyzer? Because of the slimming diet! – I immediately thought, it's the acetone thing. It is released in the body during the fasting I use – he says. – I asked the policemen for a blood test, which confirmed, that I didn't drink anything. However, the case went to the prosecutor's office, because Mr. Józef was the perpetrator of the accident. And the prosecutor ignored the blood test and stopped his driving license. Mr. Józef decided to prove his sobriety himself. He even bought his own alcohol test. – The very next day I went to the police, to blow the breathalyzer again. This one showed all the time, that I was drinking – tells Bereżewski. – So I went to the occupational medicine institute. I paid for blood sampling and alcohol testing. Score – 0 alcohol! But acetone was detected in my body. The experts could not believe the story of Mr. Józef. Ten, to clear himself of the charges, he had to go hungry again. During it, he went to donate blood, he was blowing alcohol tests. And it came out every time, that he is right. After that, the prosecutor returned the documents to him. – If someone drinks only water for at least a few days, ketone bodies may appear in his body.
Then you will feel acetone in the air he exhales – says Małgorzata Wolska, a diabetologist from the hospital. Barlicki in Łódź. And acetone does, that police alcohol tests go crazy and read it like alcohol. Therefore, people, who follow a similar diet and will be stopped by the traffic police, have them get a blood test right away.
