Ok, we know someone who has been suffering from a very strange illness for months now. He has undergone every test imaginable, including full range of tests at the heart institute, blood tests, allergy tests, MIR, catscans, EKG, EEG and nothing is showing up. It's very frustrating - and frightening for him. So I decided to post about it here, just in case someone somewhere has ever heard of something similar. There does not appear to be a pattern, eg, no particular food item or beverage ingested. He does not drink alchol. What happens is that suddenly without warning, he'll get the smell of alcohol coming out his nostrils and when he smells that smell, he knows he's going to pass out. He has just enough time to put the child down or stop what he's doing, but he can't stop from passing out.

Has anyone ever heard of a similar pattern?