Allergy and Alcohol

Oksana asks:

Hello. Tell me, please, my husband had never had an allergy before, and a few days ago we had a problem. After work came home and decided to relax - took a bottle of beer and then started. At first the face turned red, the eyes began to blush and tear, there was a runny nose, palpitation increased, then reddening began all over the body, it began to freeze. The temperature was measured at 36.2.

He used to drink a few liters of beer before, and there was no reaction at that, and now he's inferior to 0.5 liters. With what it generally can be connected and how, or to which specialist can I apply for help? Thank you in advance.

Answer:

Oksana, allergies are handled by an allergist. You need to contact him immediately, because you can give some general recommendations on the site, and your husband needs a thorough examination and competent treatment.

As for beer, it's not about quantity. The fact is that each type of beer is produced in different ways, manufacturers in addition to the main components add various additives for the fortress and preservatives. In this case, not always qualitative, and sometimes even very harmful, in order to reduce the cost of production. Unfair producers may not always indicate the full complement of additives on the bottle.

Allergies could not cause beer, but some of the components. The reaction may not be to all beer, but to a certain sort of beer. Since the reaction of your husband was quite severe, the subsequent ingestion of an allergen into the body can cause a heavier condition until anaphylactic shock. Therefore, before visiting an allergist, it is better to exclude any beer, only after examination, to identify the allergen and treatment, to think about its further use.

It should be remembered that the component that causes allergies can not be used even in small amounts. Before the appearance of disposable syringes, physicians boiled the glass syringes for antibiotics in individual sterilizers, since even traces of the drug remaining on the walls of syringes after washing and boiling in patients suffering from allergies to antibiotics could cause anaphylactic shock and death. Therefore, we will repeat: that the irreparable does not happen, it is necessary to visit the doctor, to reveal the allergen, to exclude it from use beforehand having passed a course of treatment.

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