General updates

[simont]

Alcohol update: drank some port at post-pizza last night, and once again didn't feel terribly good this morning. Not nearly as bad as the last couple of times, but then I didn't drink nearly as much port as I did beer at the weekend, and the grottiness still seemed out of proportion to the amount of alcohol consumed. I think I'm going to have to go on a sobriety jag for a bit. Gah.

Hayfever update: I've spent a couple of weeks being suspicious that my hayfever season had started. Yesterday morning and this morning, that suspicion became certainty. Gah twice.

General update: I appear to be having a military-grade attack of the singles. Multiple Gah with a side salad. (But it'll almost certainly pass; they usually do.)

Comments

No lightly-grilled stoat with French Fries?

[hilarityallen.livejournal.com]

Sorry about the sneezing. That happens. Hayfever is here. As also is a giant thunderstorm. I presume the building has a lightning conductor, and fortunately I have a surge protector.
Pity about the alcohol - it is doing similar things to me at the moment. Mine was mostly stress, though.

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

Is it not likely that your grottiness / potential problem with alcohol is tightly tied to the onset of your hayfever? One of my ex's used to have 'early' hayfever, and was generally run-down for the first few weeks of spring, then would perk up again even though the hayfever still went on for another few weeks. Some kind of adjustment period?

[simont]

Perfectly possible. And I do hope that's the case, since I'd hate to be permanently unable to drink in even moderate amounts...

The timing is particularly bad given the upcoming beerfest, also. :-(

Sympathy

[beckyc.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear you are feeling rough. Could it be some additive in the alcohol rather than the alcohol itself? - I know I've been warned against red wine by asthma doctors because of the sulphites in it. Don't know if it can cause rhinitis as well - you'd have to ask a biochemist.

Re: Sympathy

[simont]

Hmm. It'd have to be an additive that's present in both beer and port. Any idea where I can find a tame biochemist (preferably with special knowledge of booze :-) to answer questions like that?

Re: Sympathy

[beckyc.livejournal.com]

Gah, I'm using lynx in putty and I can't make it copy and paste. Hope I copy it right:

www.ukparents.co.uk/archives/az_food_allergy.shtml

says that beer has got sulphites in as well as wine. But I've got no idea how many other zillions of preservatives or what other things it *might* have in it and which *might* make you ill etc, just that that is known as a "standard" asthma trigger, which is why they warn you against it. Remind me later and I'll dig out my books on additives.

And all the biochemists I know are a pretty wild bunch ;-)