Wine 'allergy'

[topsi]

I have been suffering for many years with low energy levels, insomnia and depression. Recently I went to see a nutritionist who amongst other thigs suggested that I cut out my 1/2 a glass of wine a night.
Now I only had 1/2 a glass a night because I knew that it didn't 'agree' with me. Silly I know that I was having something in my diet which I knew that my body didn't 'like' but I did enjoy the taste.
For about 2 weeks I had had no wine and I have to say I felt alot better for it, clearer head and less tired, just more alive really.
Yesterday I made a casserole with one carton of Tesco 'value' red wine in it.
Today I feel like crap so tired, slightly dizzy, a bit sick and very fed up.
I shocked that the effect is so strong as I kind of thought my initial inprovement may have been a coincidence, it's all so wierd.
Am I now going to have to avoid all wine even in food, how does that leave me when I eat out?
Was my depression really that exacerbated by such a small 'treat' each evening. I feel a bit emotional about the whole thing.

acollegue of mine says shes allergic to red wine. She gets runny red nose, fels a bit crappy etc when shes had a glass. Also chocolate. It may be an intolerence to an ingredient in it ?

I can't get my head round the fact that I have been contributing to my own ill health for so long, it makes me feel like crying.

It might not be the wine itself, it might be the sulphites that are used as a preservative. Cheaper wine has more sulphites. It is possible to buy sulphite-free red wine: you could try this if you want to, and it'd mean you could still have a glass every now and again if you wanted to.

Thank you Prune, it was an especially cheap wine that I used last night.
I feel a bit mixed up about the whole thing to be honest, probably exacerbated by the effect of the cheap wine.
Spoke to my Mum about it and she just said 'well all the alcohol would evaporated' and 'have a coffee' and laughed, knowning that I have given up caffine at the same time!
I sometimes feel that no one takes me seroiusly, I have been feeling like shit for years and now this happens and it's just laughed off.

Topsi, it is most probably the sulphites. Cheap red wine makes me feel dreadful the next day with blocked sinuses, headache, tiredness. Of course, alcohol is also a depressant, but for me its the sulphites - I can get it after one glass of the cheap red stuff. Treat yourself to a really nice preservative-free glass and see how you feel?

Also, anyone with an egg allergy should look at wine, as crushed egg shells can be used as a purifier in the winemaking process. It is not even legally required that they put this on the labels, but I have it on good authority from a friend who is a winemaker in New Zealand, so its not an urban myth!

My friend is horribly allergic to Chillian wines, but fine with other countries.

I thought that was a load of balls when she first told me, but it really isn't. It's true.

I am allergic to a particular sort of red wine. Maybe not allergic, but super sensitive. A volume of about two eggcups has me really pissed and then vomiting.
Cheap red? No problem.