توليد الكل پس از مرگ در بدن و عوامل موثر بر آن

The production of alchohol in body after death and related factors

Alcohol (ethanol) analysis is the most common experiment done in forensic medicine toxicology laboratories. Usually finding of alcohol due to its use prior to death is confounded by its production after death. Many bacteria and fungi can produce alcohol from corpusʹs substrates, especially when environment temperature is high and there is adequate time from death to autopsy. These factors cause diagnostic error in differentiating pre-death from post-death alcohol. Taking the fact that many crimes are related to alcohol use into consideration, the importance of proper diagnosis will be augmented. In this article we discuss methods to distinguish alcohol used before death from the one produced after it. The used indices are person history, specimensʹ conditions, current specimens, ethanol diffusion in body fluids and tissues, ethanol concentration and use of specific diagnostic methods. We concluded that provided attention is paid to the aforementioned factors and conditions, it is possible to discriminate the pre or post death source of alcohol.