Whenever I drink White wine I get very drunk very fast, after only one or two glasses, I become her dizzy and disoriented and feel sick and tired. The next day I have a really bad hangover with a migraine. I can drink other alcohol and red wine and nothing affects me like this! Also I haven't noticed a problem with champagne and sparkling wine doesn't seem to affect me as badly. I always convince myself I'm imagining it but when I drink it I always get the same reaction. It is so good to read people on here have the same reaction and I might be right in thinking I have an allergy.

Hi! I am NOT a big drinker at all, and I recently have started drinking some very sweet Red Wine. I notice within minutes after drinking my first sip I get really strong lower back pain and hot flashes. I have had issues with drinking in the past, I remember my first strawberry daiquiri in my early 20's and it giving me strong chest pains and shooting pains down my arm. I quit drinking after that episode and only drank an occasional beer. I have recently started having mixed drinks like Malibu and Pineapple Juice, with no effects except the hot flashes. The Red Wine is delicious, but I must say, not worth this back pain it gives me!! Wondering if I have some sort of allergy to certain kinds of alcohol and wine?

I am quite definitely allergic to wheat (but not coeliac) and I can be sensitive to yeast (vinegars, sugar in products etc). My allergy comes out in the form of swollen eyes, skins rashes and itching. However, I've noticed that sometimes (within an hour or so) after drinking wine I become very sniffly - allergic rhinitis ? The next morning I wake up with a blocked nose, a bit like I've got a cold (which I don't). I realise there is yeast in wine but drinking wine never brings on any of my "usual" symptoms. At the moment I'm not sure if it's white wine or red or both that can cause this problem - I've only just realised (through internet searches) that allergic rhinitis can indicate a wine allergy (my wheat allergy does not cause this). I drank some white wine last night and when I went to bed I was "full of the cold" and am still that way this morning - even though I do not have a cold. I will track it and see if red wine causes the same problem.

I wish to know if my yeast allergy prevents me from drinking wine. If so what can I drink.

I have gone to many wine tastings and wine dinners and have learned that if I drink both red and white wine at the tasting, I become violently ill the next morning. I can drink many glasses of white, or many glasses of red, but it only happens when I mix the two. I am fine after the tasting and even take a breathalyzer immediately afterword and usually blow a 0 or very close to it. The next morning (or sometimes in the night) I wake up with diarrhea, stomach cramps, and nausea. I also occasionally drink martinis after wine with no side effects. What could be causing this???

I have no known allergies to food, just to penicillin and sulfa drugs.

i used to drink loads when i was younger but decided to stop drinking completely for about 3 years. Then i really started to fancy a glass of wine in the evening with my wife but started being really ill the next day. id wake up feeling like i had the flu and as soon as i sat up out of bed i wanted to throw up and the room would spin, this would carry on till about 3ish in the afternoon then id start to come to, after a while we decided that it must be the wine so i stopped having it and didn t have a problem again, someone said that i could have an allergy to the suphites in the wine but im not sure what it is. any ideas?

I just recently started drinking wine again after not drinking for 5 years. I am breaking out in very ichy hives. They can manifest in different places such as palms of hands, arms and feet. Do you think that it could be wine?

The reason for writing at 1240pm is that I am unable to sleep because I am itchy all over! I cannot see any hives.
The only connection I can make, is that I had a glass and a half of a Chilean Sauvignon Blanc tonight - I generally only drink a small amount of red, and this is all we had!
I have had this itching in the past, but not for a long time, it generally comes on when I am in bed and I am warm and then it starts! Thats it then, I have to get up, sometimes I take a shower as it occasionally helps, and I also take an anti-histimine just in case it was a reaction. I thought I'd look it up on the computer tonight, and found this site, which is when I thought I'd write, I have never thought it would possibly be connected to the wine.
I not a "sensitive" person, and never react to food or any other drinks.

I've always had aversion to alcohol since I usually felt pretty lousy after drinking even a few sips of beer and wine, but last night I slowly drank a glass of white wine (this is the most i've ever drank of wine before) and had a very obvious reaction. My face got beet-red, I was very dizzy, drunk-like feeling instantly and my face got numb and i got extremely sleepy and disoriented with a sinus headache and congestion. It was almost like a wave of flu-like symptoms, my face was burning hot but my body was freezing. In the past I had this same reaction to hot sake, an almost immediate flu-like sickness and disorientation. (also felt this way to excessing amounts of MSG in food, but I don't' know if that is related) I have noticed that rum-based drinks do not bother me the same way. I am a definite lightweight so rum makes me tipsy very quickly but those immediate flu-like symptoms are not present with rum.
I've learned that my Grandmother had similar red-faced and alcohol aversion issues and I had a great Aunt who passed from esophageal cancer. Any ideas on what my problem is would be appreciated!!

I am having immediate reactions to alcohol. My sinus become inflamed and I immediately loose my sense of taste and smell. My cheeks become flushed and a hot flash passes over me. My lungs feel tightened, like I'm having an asthma attack. I guess I'll go back to the allergist to be tested again. I never had the food allergy tests.

I have noticed on a few occations that only 1 - 2 small glasses of rose wine can transform me into a monster. I can not remember what I say or do all I know is I have to be somewhere on my own as I hurt my hubby emotionally and nothing and none can stop me. My brain is ponding, I can hardly descripe the feeling. I can drink red or white without these effects, but rose is dangerous for me. It took me a while to figure out it could be the rose wine, always thought I get drunk very quick. I can sip 3 - 4 glasses of white on a nice evening and have no reaction. I get a bit tipsy, but nothing like from the rose. I wake up the next morning feeling terribly hangover with strong headaches and still feeling slightly drunk even half through the day. I stay away from it...I have no idea what causes it. Some people told me it could be the sugar content, but then I can drink slightly sweeter whites.