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I'm allergic to beer, and it's the strangest thing. If I have one normal beer, the next day my face is flush and my eyes are red. Two and I've got a hangover and a runny nose.

I'm not much of a drinker, but other alcohol doesn't affect me like this - a cocktail or two and I'm fine the next day.

Bread and wheat doesn't seem to have negative effects, so I have no idea what it could be.

Anyone else experience similar things or have any idea what it could be?

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The ingredients common to all beer are malted barley, hops, water, and yeast. So maybe hops?

Or barley.

Although the lack of issues around bread and wheat seem to rule it out, I‘d still recommend having a check for celiac disease.

Maybe do a trial with alcoholic yet gluten-free beer.

This study could be more rigorous. I volunteer for the control group as long as someone else is buying.

I also can't drink most beer. I sometimes get a hangover and headache from just a single small beer (0.3 liter)

I found that I tolerate beers from some breweries better than others (the type of beer doesn't seem to make a difference).

I suspect that I am allergic to certain yeasts, but to be honest I have no idea.

I know someone who recently visited an allergist to investigate a similar response to beer, and testing suggested his issue was sulfites which are a common beer additive

> one normal beer

I mean, in the right setting, that could be a liter. Are you only drinking beer at Hofbräuhaus?

they add crady things into beer, I heard some type will add oyster shell...

Histamine?

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