Why do I feel sick and get head ache when I drink wine (specially red wine)but I'm completely fine with vodka?

Answer 1

Many wines contain sulfites. Some people are sensitive to sulfites and suffer much the same symptoms you do. The sulfite content is mentioned on the wine bottle lable.

Answer 2

I think this is a great question due to the fact that it is the complete opposite for me, vodka drives me mental, sick and gives me an aw full hangover but i can drink red wine until the cows come home, I can drink white wine but per fer red, its mad. But am sorry i have no idea why! Maybe what we drink likes us more than we like it and vice-versa.

Answer 3

You may be sensitive to the nitrates in wine, or various other things, like the sugar in it also. Vodka hasn't any sugar, nitrates, and the distilling process is different. Many times we also get headaches from alcohol due to dehydration. You may have to experiment a little, try drinking water after drinking, just before you go to sleep. If this doesn't work, I would strongly suggest lowering your wine intake.

Answer 4

Red Wine carries a lot of sediment if you drink a glass of cold water after drinking Red Wine you will not get a headache, however Red Wine is good for men it prevents bowel cancer.

Vodka (plenty of it and on a regularly basis) can make you depressed.

Answer 5

its cause of the sugar content! the darker that the alcohol is, the higher the sugar content. a natural reaction to sugar in the human body is to compensate for that by thinning the blood and becoming a dyuretic (makes you piss). the following morning you then suffer from thinned out blood running your system and being dehydrated (try running a car if its low on water and you put the wrong oil in it! it wont break,but it wont run properly) thats also why the best cure for a hangover is a few sips of what you had the night before. that way you dont give your body a culture shock, but you blend it back in. hope you cure many headaches from now!

Answer 6

The causes of hangovers are the congeners in drinks.

The darker the drink the more congeners are in it. Ergo Red wine has more than white wine and is more likely to give you a hangover.

Port will give you a monstrous hangover: Vodka and Gin won´t.

BOTTOMS UP!

Answer 7

LEAD: Migraine sufferers have often told skeptical physicians that red wine, but not other alcoholic drinks, brought on their headaches. Now researchers in London say they may be right, although the reasons remain unclear.

Migraine sufferers have often told skeptical physicians that red wine, but not other alcoholic drinks, brought on their headaches. Now researchers in London say they may be right, although the reasons remain unclear.

The researchers served red wine or vodka to 32 people at the Princess Margaret Migraine Clinic at Charing Cross Hospital. Nineteen participants were migraine sufferers who said red wine brought on headaches; five others suffered migraine headaches but not from red wine. The study also had a control group of eight people who did not suffer from migraine.

Eight people in the group of 19 were served vodka mixed with lemonade; none of them suffered a migraine headache. The other 11 in the group were given red wine; nine of them suffered migraines. The five other migraine patients and the people in the control group drank red wine; none suffered a headache.

The drinks, containing equivalent amounts of alcohol, were chilled to disguise their taste and served in brown glass bottles with dark straws. The participants had been told that they might receive some type of alocholic drink.

In their report, published in a recent issue of The Lancet, a British medical journal, the researchers said that about 25 percent of migraine sufferers say certain foods bring on attacks.

''Alcoholic drinks, in particular red wine, head the list,'' they said.

They said their study had not determined what component in the red wine caused the migraines, but they ruled out alcohol. They also ruled out tyramine, an organic compound present in small amounts in red wine.

The report said alcohol might be ''a co-factor for some other component of red wine in the development of migraine, for there are migrainous patients who believe that alcoholic drinks in general can induce their attacks.''

Answer 8

Even with 1 glass of red wine i get a stomping headache. But fine with white.

Answer 9

Put simply, wine dehydrates you quite fast (which causes the dry mouth and sometimes unsavoury breath). Also that's why you get headaches... Drink the occasional glass of water with your wine and before you go to bed... That should help abit :)

Answer 10

You are reacting to the high histamine content in red wine that does not exist in vodka. Lots of people do!