Four-Week Hangover

When a 37-year old man walked into a hospital emergency room in Glasgow last October complaining of "wavy" vision and a non-stop headache that had lasted four weeks, doctors were at first stumped, The Lancet reported yesterday.

It was only after the man revealed he had consumed 60 pints - roughly 35 litres - of beer over a four-day period that doctors suspected he was suffering from cerebral venous sinus thrombosis.

A scan of the brain's blood vessels confirmed the diagnosis.

- Agencies