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Doctor Explains Why You Go Red when You Drink Alcohol

By Peter Cutforth

December 10, 2017

Alcohol, Booze, drinking, drunk, liquor

A recent article on Popsugar.com.au discussed why some people get so red when they drink, particularly in their face, neck, chest and sometimes in their arms and legs.

According to Dr. Luiza Petre board-certified cardiologist and weight-loss specialist, alcohol metabolism is dependent on enzymes – alcohol dehydrogenase that converts alcohol to acetaldehyde and acetaldehyde dehydrogenase that further converts acetaldehyde to harmless products.

Some people, including eighty percent of Asians have a hyperfunctional alcohol dehydrogenase and therefore metabolise alcohol to acetaldehyde up to 100 times faster than others.

The doctor goes on to explain that 40 percent have some sort of malfunction of acetaldehyde dehydrogenase that causes alcohol to metabolise too quickly and it can’t easily get  out.

This can be called an alcohol allergy with the flushed red skin being attributed to a histamine release which swells the capillaries and causes nasal symptoms and possibly diarrhea, nausea, and vomiting, the doctor explained. It’s safe to say when you start getting red you should stop drinking. Read more at https://www.popsugar.com.au/fitness/Why-Do-I-Turn-Red-When-I-Drink-Alcohol-44299923#FeszSZz7XQzbfZAL.99

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