To ask if you have started getting bright red cheeks after drinking alcohol in middle age

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Just met some friends for an after work drinks and my cheeks are livid! This definitely never used to happen. How embarrassing.

I've always been like this, I get very flushed after just a small glass of wine 😳

Yes and a bright red neck!! It’s awful! I only drink white wine so was wondering if it’s a wine thing.

This happens to me. Though it never occurred to me it could be considered embarrassing.

Wine? Sulphites maybe?

It's an allergic reaction.

My neck goes red. And also after being outside for any length of time in cold weather and then coming inside. Horrific redness/burning.

I think its to do with histamines and intolerance to histamines forming around perimenopause time. I get flushed if I eat certain things these days, so annoying

Defo.

Yes! Mine started with red wine only, then after a while lager, then white wine too. I dont bother now as my skin feels like its burning with all alcohol.

I get this too, I call it wine face!!

Yup. I've alway thought it's something to do with higher sulfite levels in the wine.

Yes to this with red wine! However,I appear to be ok with white,prosecco and lager (though not all in the same glass,obvs)

I had a gin and tonic and then a wine so not sure if it's wine or everything

I guess scientific enquiry is needed

I used to get a red neck and hot face as soon as I had an alcoholic drink (I’ve given up drinking now). I presumed it was an issue with metabolising the alcohol/an intolerance.

I've just taken an antihistamine will report back

You can just show me the alcohol and im scarlet

My friend is the same.

@Tulipvase I'm the same, I go really red in the face after going inside somewhere that's warm after been outside in the cold.
I had people comment to me when waiting for a hospital appointment (not related to this), saying I was rather red, everyone turned to look at me. I just said out loudly that I can't control it - the lady who was checking in patients shouted over that the same thing happens to her too.

You probably have roseacea, it sucks. Buy some wine filter bags from Amazon - they remove sulfites and histamines and might help. Also try a green-based corrector cream or tinted moisturizer.

According to AI it is acetaldehyde buildup.

I was the same as were many friends for years.
I am fine now thank goodness.
The anti histamine pre alcohol helps, as does add a little bit of the green tint cream foundation to your normal foundation to level out your colouring.
It was definitely hormonal for me.

I'm Chinese and it's happened to me all my life. I used to get teased all the time about it. I'm middle-aged now and it will be karma if those people start experiencing it too!

Yes mine was particularly noticeable on a school residential trip.

I know it shouldn’t be embarrassing but i do feel self conscious about it. Slightly uncomfortable too.

I don’t suffer from this but my DH does. Any alcohol - even just half a lager - has him bright red in the face and neck.

He calls it a bar tan.

Surely you shouldn't take antihistamines if you're on the booze?

Why??