Alcohol allergy red face
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It can be due to contact dermatitis, seborrheic dermatitis or rosacea. Rosacea is a medical condition presenting with redness, swelling, discoloration and sometimes pimples and dry skin over the cheeks, nose, chin or forehead.
Avoid the sun and hot weather, spicy foods, alcohol, and hot beverages. Also try to reduce stress as it may precipitate attacks. A dermatologist’s evaluation will be the best.
I drank Holsten 3-4 years ago nothing happened but this time I got red face like red pepper, red eyes, rashes on forehead, below front of neck, knees and red palms with little nervousness but no itches.
This is disturbing me and sounds like I would have to sacrifice my enjoyment of drinking beer Friday every week.
Any suggestions?
Thanks.
I have always gotten red in the face and had a red neck. I do have high blood pressure and do take medicine. I am a smoker and do drink some alcohol. I take procardia, metorprol and lisinipril for the blood pressure. With these meds it is regulated. I did have some tests done earlier in the year. One was a speical Cardio CT Angiogram and showed some narrowing of one artery, but not blocked. I have to watch my diet and stop smoking. Recently my face has gotten red more frequently.
I have the same exact reaction to alcohol so I know how you feel. I have been told by several friends that I should just take benadry before drinking but I haven't done that. It sounds pretty boring lol but I just don't drink anymore. If not drinking isn't something that you want to do I would call your Dr. and maybe ask for an appointment because I would guess it could be a reaction because of an underlying health condition.
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And since this facial rash has started I now turn bright red in the Eczema patches on my face when I even have ONE sip of alcohol. (Ive never had this problem before)
I don't know what it is. No one knows what it is. I'm desperate and very depressed.
I would gladly take any advice. Thank you!
Current medications: Advair 500(I've been on the 500 for 1 month now, but 250 for the past 6 years), Singulair(I've been on it for the past 8 years), Albuterol.
t drink any more than 1 glass of wine. whenever i drink alcohol i get red flushes all over my body within 1-2 minutes, and my face gets a bit swollen(especially the lips) with my eyes going red. i also get dizzy and very very warm, and i can hear my heart fluttering (literally beating very fast and slow and then very fast and then slow).
Thank you for the comment about the alcohol/red wine but I don't drink. Never have...but food allergy is interesting? I don't know that I have been doing anything different for the past year or so...when I first saw the blotches. I'll look for pics of broken capillaries but they look like small rasberries...if that makes any sense. I think I did look up lupus at one time but I am going to look again.
It definitely sounds like you could have some type of allergy to alcohol! I have a friend who has very similar symptoms after drinking but his normally starts within about 6 hours of having a couple of drinks. Alcohol allergies at some level is surprisingly more common than most people think.
My advice, talk to your Dr. about it just to make sure its nothing more serious ie: liver issues.
Good luck!
I had a few sips of a bud light lime-a-Rita and broke out in a red splotches all over my face, neck, and chest. My face felt very hot which is what prompted me to examine it while sipping the drink. I thought that I could tolerate bailey's Irish cream, which is whiskey, but after safely drinking it one night I tried it again and found that is gave me no buzz at all, but did make me very nauseous.
Recently, I have had one or two drinks followed by a 5/10 minutes of difficulty breathing, wheezy feeling of short noneffective breath, then my face feels warm, and soon enough splotches of warm, red skin covering my face, neck, and splotchy across my chest, back, arms (top portion of arms only, meaning from shoulders down to wrists but seemingly only on the top of the arm), and on my knees. It is also accompanied by a rapid pulse of 120 or 130.
Recently while drinking these beers, I would breakout in red spots on my chest, arms, and my face would turn red. I would also have difficulty breathing. I told the doctor what had happened, and he said that I may be allergic to sulfates or preservatives in the beer. So I switched to Steinlager which states on the box no additives or preservatives, and took 1 antihistamine pill and had no problems. I Also tried Millers Milwaukee's style beers, which also states no adds.
You are not allergic alcohol. It causes direct vasodilation of the skin, related either to alcohol directly or its metabolite, acetaldehyde. Alcohol is oxidized to acetaldehyde in the liver by alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH). This acetaldehyde is further converted to acetic acid by acetaldehyde dehydrogenase. In some individuals due to abnormal or deficient acetaldehyde dehydrogenase will cause accumulation of acetaldehyde which is a potent trigger of flushing.
For that please consult an allergy specialist and get skin ***** tests and blood tests for allergy done. If the skin testing is negative, it is likely that you are intolerant to wine and beer. If the skin testing is positive, you should avoid food and drink that contain that specific ingredient.
It is very difficult to precisely confirm a diagnosis without examination and investigations and the answer is based on the medical information provided.
t start off as blepharitis,its the toxin sweated out the skin collects on eyelids,which turns crusty, reddish,which gives you an allergy,which then gives you blepharities,you also probably find your cheeks of your face get reddish too,and when you scrunch your face up ,you can feel soreness on the face.
Now the hardest part is finding your allergy..
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