Why is it that whenever I drink so much as one glass of red wine my lips turn a very unflattering shade of reddish/blue?

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Tannins It has to do with chemical compounds called tannins. They are particularly present in red wines and come from grape skins and seeds. Wines matured in wooden casks with high tannin content can also give rise to tannin content in wine.

Tannins are what give a bitter taste to wine and make your mouth dry. You could try wines with low tannin content. Beajolais, Pinot Noirs and Merlots are some of the reds with low tannin content.

Burgundy and Chianti range from low to medium tannin content while Cabernet Sauvignon and Shiraz would have high tannin content. You could also try using lip balms (the odorless variety) to avoid the "red wine lips". Sipping a glass of water might also help.

Hope that helped.

It stains because... Your skin is porous, especially the skin on your lips, which is the thinnest skin on your body. So, just like wine stains clothing, red wine will stain your lips (and even skin on your body if left there long enough). The easiest way to avoid this is to put on a thin layer of lip gloss, balm, or petroleum jelly.

Anything with mineral oil or beeswax should create a barrier that the wine will not penetrate.

Increases bloodflow Alcohol can dilate blood vessels, causing more blood to flow to the surface of your skin. I've noticed that my cheeks get very flushed after a drink or 2.

Direct from source below: The cause of this "wine flush" has to do with how many Asians metabolize alchohol. Alchohol is absorbed through the stomach and small intestine. About 10 percent is eliminated by the kidneys, lungs, and sweat glands, but the rest is dealt with in the liver by two enzymes: alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) and aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH).

I don't know enough about the body's chemistry to know how these two enzymes actually manage to break down the alchohol, but it's enough to know that they do. It's this second enzyme (ALDH) that is missing (or low) in up to 50 percent of Asian people, and is not present at all in most Native Americans and Inuits. People with less ALDH will often flush and sweat after drinking alcohol, and if their quantities of the enzyme are quite low, they may also become ill after drinking even small amounts of booze.

Recent studies also suggest women have fewer of these enzymes than men. The wine flush ranges from a light pink to a deep red purple in my experience, and for many it's embarrassing, which is why my ears perked up the other day when an Asian colleague at work claimed to have a cure for it. He swore that taking a Pepcid AC tablet before or during drinking, significantly reduced or even eliminated his wine flush.

After a few highly scientific tests, we have found that it really does work. How it works is a mystery that won't be solved here. Pepcid AC contains Famotidine.

According to DrugDigest. Org, "Famotidine is a histamine-2 receptor blocker, or H2-blocker.It works in the stomach on a pump that releases hydrochloric acid when stimulated by histamine. Famotidine prevents histamine from stimulating this pump, thereby reducing the amount of acid that is released into the stomach.

" What I don't know, is how the level of acid in the stomach correlates to ALDH levels and alchohol metabolism. Sources: http://www.vinography.com/archives/2004/05/losing_the_wine_flush_a_cure_f.html .

Allergies you might have an allergy to the type of alcohol .

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