What is alcohol allergy?

Our wine culture has a long history. Drinking and making friends is a cultural feature of our country. However, some people don't change their faces after drinking wine, and some people will have symptoms such as physical discomfort and allergies. What should I do if I encounter drinking water allergy? First of all, we should know what alcohol allergy is, and then we can solve the problem of drinking allergy. Let's have a look.

What is alcohol allergy?

In fact, people who are naturally allergic to alcohol are due to the lack of an acetaldehyde invertase substance in their bodies. Alcohol will produce a lot of acetaldehyde in human body. If acetaldehyde cannot be decomposed in time, it will stimulate human body and lead to allergic symptoms, such as itchy skin and erythema.

How to determine your drinking allergy?

There are generally two situations when drinking, one is a quick hairstyle and the other is a late hairstyle.

Fast hair style means that drinking alcohol will cause itching, redness and swelling of the skin in a short time, and some even have difficulty breathing. This kind of alcohol allergy is very dangerous and may lead to death if it is not rescued in time. Of course, the last clinical situation is relatively rare.

Delayed type is a common case of alcohol allergy. Generally, after drinking, the whole body will itch, and red papules and erythema will appear locally, which lasts for a long time, usually for one or two days.

What should I do if I am allergic to drinking?

Can you give up drinking if you are allergic to drinking? Sometimes it's really inevitable. Here are some drinking tips to reduce the harm of alcohol to human body.

Never drink on an empty stomach. Drinking on an empty stomach hurts the spleen, stomach and liver, so it is best to eat something directly and drink some milk before drinking, so as to ensure that there is food in the stomach and reduce the stimulation of alcohol on the gastric mucosa.

You can eat some watermelon when drinking. Drinking is allergic because there is too much acetaldehyde in the body that cannot be metabolized. Watermelon juice has a very powerful diuretic function, which can quickly excrete alcohol products in human days.

③ If the allergic condition is serious, it is recommended to prescribe antiallergic drugs under the guidance of a doctor, which can be used in advance to prevent alcoholism.

People who are allergic to alcohol can try to avoid drinking alcohol, because alcohol is too harmful to health.