I feel like some beers just have such a terrible negative affect on me, that profoundly surpasses what most people meany when they dicuss the negative effects.
Whenever I try and look into it, I just see the standard “top ten hangover symptoms” or whatever.
It’s increasingly hard to find useful information on the Internet.
Is there a difference? Or are we all allergic to alcohol and just the symptoms vary?
Might be handy to actually say what “terrible negative effect” is has on you
When it’s beer from the UK, I get red face, snuffles, like I am having a cold, and feel generally like shit - the runs, hangovers, headaches etc.
When it’s German beer (with the purity laws) - I don’t get the red face and the cold-like effects, but I get runs, feel achey, severe depressive hangovers etc
I’d probably stop drinking beer if I were you.
Agreed. Are we talking about vomiting from 1 beer, or like a bad headache if you drink a dark malty beer that doesn’t happen with an IPA? If the former, yeah, you probably shouldn’t drink beer. If the latter, then consider the malt being the issue not the hops, and stick to light beers.
Realistically, alcohol, in any form is effectively poison. It’s just not a high enough dose to do any major damage, when consumed in moderation.
I sometimes have sneezing fits if I’m drinking high hops beer e.g. IPA, ales etc. Don’t suffer from this with spirits and lighter beer e.g. lager. So anecdotally I put this down to a slight allergy to hops rather than ethanol as such
The difference, not “the door difference”
You can edit post titles on Lemmy, just fyi
I’m not sure whether there actually is an allergy against alcohol. Generally, an allergy is an exaggerated response by your immune system to a substance. Basically, your body thinks, some substance (mostly proteins) is part of a pathogen (like a hull protein of a bacterium) and responds accordingly. There are different types of allergies depending on what part of your immune system gets activated.
The adverse effects of alcohol on the other hand, are mostly effects of the poisonous byproducts of intermediate products of alcohol metabolism (the process in which your body gets rid of the alcohol).
Of course, you can be allergic to another compound of an alcoholic beverage, like some proteins from the malt used to make beer or have another kind of reaction, which isn’t an allergy to other compounds.
I used to always feel tired after drinking beer. I’d be going to sleep after 3-4 beers and glurking up foam - then it was like I had a hangover before I went to bed. I noticed that I felt more clear-headed with 5-6 cocktails, shots or glasses of wine than 3 beers.
It turned out this was because of celiac disease, so it was a reaction to the gluten in beer. So my question is do you mean just beer or all alcoholic drinks?
