Originally posted by: Transition
Goodbye alcohol, hello drugs.
Originally posted by: Transition
Goodbye alcohol, hello drugs.
it may have been just the amaretto. get an epi-pen and try a different kind of alcohol. the epinephrine shot (pen) can be administered if you start to feel like your throat is closing up. you won't die a slow and painful death, the ephinephrine stops the reaction.Originally posted by: Ulfwald
Ok, so last night I got in from work around Midnight. We had our company "potluck" dinner as well, and I drank lots of coke and tea, which means I was not going to sleep anytime soon. So to counter the effects of the caffine, I had a sprite with a couple of shots of amaretto mixed in. after a few minutes my face felt really hot, itchy, and really funny. My wife came in from the kitchen with me a little snack and just froze.........................
She looked at me funny and asked if I was feeling ok, I said for the most part I was, but my face felt funny. She got her little compact mirror from her handbag and showed me my face. It was swollen and red, and I mean rudolf the red nosed reindeer red, and I looked like I just lost all 10 rounds with Hollyfield. My eyes were becoming little slits, my nose turned stuffy, and i felt like my face was on fire.
Well, i wasn't sure what had caused it, so i drank some ice water and after about an hour, it settled down, so I drank some more sprite/amaretto, and it started happening again. So I quit the drinking and stayed strictly with the ice water.
Woke up this morning and felt fine, face back to normal, and I threw away what little amaretto I had left.
I called the Dr, and he basically told me to not drink ever again, because I now run the risk of having my throat close up on me, and dieing a very painfull and slow way.
So, Ulfwald cannot drink anymore.
No, you wouldn't use it in order to drink. In fact, it doesnt really do anything to fight the allergy, just makes your body work hard to keep breathing and stuff - long enough to get to the hospital. I only recommended it because his allergy was so sudden and sounded pretty serious. He is lucky it did not attack his throat. You are right, but my suggestion was more of a precaution than anything else.Originally posted by: ViRGE
Yea, but that's meant for an emergency, such as when you accidentally ingest something you shouldn't. I don't think it's medically safe to use it like that whenever he wants a beer.Originally posted by: HardcoreRobot
you should ask your doc for a prespcription for epinephrine (adrenaline). it comes in little saftey injectors and could save your life if you have an allergic reaction (which you now appear to be prone to)
and yes you can develop allergies at any time
Originally posted by: Ulfwald
update...,
Well, i tried it with just plain beer, Icehouse to be exact. and still same reaction. So on another night, i tried Scotch and water, more reaction that I care to think about. Nose running, eyes watered, basically worse than with the amaretto.
Ok lst night, 1 shot of Crown Royal. same reaction. Looks like the partying days are over for me.
Agreed. And actually high quality (expensive) 100% agave tequila is less likely to give you a hangover than beer, whiskey, etc. I've proven it to friends. Tequila gets a bad rap because people end up drinking too much since their shooting it. Drink enough of anything = hangover. And because they usually drink the cheap mixtos instead (Quervo, Pepe Lopez, etc).Originally posted by: Gibsons
The thing to try is some high-quality vodka. I'll go out on a small limb and suggest it's impossible to be allergic to ethyl alcohol (difficult for an antibody to stably bind something so small), but an allergy to all the other stuff (like the congeners that are in great part the cause of hangovers - scotch and beer are loaded with them) is likely. Vodka tends to have the least of these contaminants, but some are still certainly there. Note that your intestinal flora (the bacteria in your gut) produce small amounts of alchohol.
Originally posted by: Ulfwald
update...,
Well, i tried it with just plain beer, Icehouse to be exact. and still same reaction. So on another night, i tried Scotch and water, more reaction that I care to think about. Nose running, eyes watered, basically worse than with the amaretto.
Ok lst night, 1 shot of Crown Royal. same reaction. Looks like the partying days are over for me.
Originally posted by: Ulfwald
I will try another beer tonight, if I start feeling weird again, then i will have to quit consuming the stuff.