Asian Men Turning Red When Drinking

[krazyg]

Im Asian and turn red very easily after drinking. I take a Pepcid AC before drinking and I don't turn red at all unless I drink excessively.

 

[streetchemistry]

Not just men, my girl is half Japanese and she gets mad red after a few drinks.

 

[shatterkneesinc]

i get red but no where near drunk

people get the impression if you are blushing you are drunk

 

[aznjmacan]

Yeh, poppin bottles and turning red after 1 drink sucks

I can smoke allday and function perfectly though

I guess my ancestors smoked the pipe instead of sippin the bottle..

 

[cubsfan455]

Originally Posted by shatterkneesinc

i get red but no where near drunk

people get the impression if you are blushing you are drunk

yup. people always thinkin your all f*cked up cuz your red, but i get mad red after 1 beer.
whatever though. more puffin and less sippin

 

[limitedretroog]

 

[tyeung53]

Originally Posted by freakydestroyer

there's a way around it I dunno what it was? maybe it was pepcid AC

that also
zantac 75 (150 will mess you up in the long run)
tums

those are the only ways i know i take em 45mins before i drink. it helps. also it depends on how red you get normally too

 

[whyte1der05five]

This happens to us Irish folk also.

 

[iluvjordanxi]

my friend turns red but I don't know about me, I don't drink

 

[enlightened thought]

suckers. i never turn red.

vietnamese blood ftw!

 

[dub 253]

RIP

 

[the north west]

that must suck for yall

i drink heavy so that would suck

 

[rawsheed]

doesn't really happen to me.

 

[mateen cleaves]

pics?

 

[metallicnitro]

Yeah, Asians have it bad. A lot of them can't handle the alcohol because of that missing enzyme.

 

[lorenander]

i turn red after a beer. ugh. pepcid prolongs you from turning red though, so it helps me a bit in my case.

 

[nicke1z]

ha. im asian and i dont turn red

 

[dirtylicious]

Originally Posted by K2theAblaM

It's the pigmentation of our skin color. We get flushed red due to the increased blood flow since alcohol thins the blood.

It's also why Asian babies are bright red when we're born.

no

http://www.pubmedcentral....render.fcgi?artid=303676

Many Orientals lack the mitochondrial aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH2) activity responsible for the oxidation of acetaldehyde produced during ethanol metabolism. These individuals suffer the alcohol-flush reaction when they drink alcoholic beverages. The alcohol-flush reaction is the result of excessive acetaldehyde accumulation, and the unpleasant symptoms tend to reduce alcohol consumption. The subunit of this homotetrameric enzyme was sequenced and the abnormality in the inactive enzyme shown to be a substitution of lysine for glutamate at position 487. We have used the polymerase chain reaction to determine the genotypes of 24 livers from Japanese individuals. Correlating genotype with phenotype leads to the conclusion that the allele (ALDH2(2)) encoding the abnormal subunit is dominant.

 

[lrrr]

Originally Posted by Dirtylicious

Originally Posted by K2theAblaM

It's the pigmentation of our skin color. We get flushed red due to the increased blood flow since alcohol thins the blood.

It's also why Asian babies are bright red when we're born.

no

http://www.pubmedcentral....render.fcgi?artid=303676

Many Orientals lack the mitochondrial aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH2) activity responsible for the oxidation of acetaldehyde produced during ethanol metabolism. These individuals suffer the alcohol-flush reaction when they drink alcoholic beverages. The alcohol-flush reaction is the result of excessive acetaldehyde accumulation, and the unpleasant symptoms tend to reduce alcohol consumption. The subunit of this homotetrameric enzyme was sequenced and the abnormality in the inactive enzyme shown to be a substitution of lysine for glutamate at position 487. We have used the polymerase chain reaction to determine the genotypes of 24 livers from Japanese individuals. Correlating genotype with phenotype leads to the conclusion that the allele (ALDH2(2)) encoding the abnormal subunit is dominant.

I don't know what any of that meant

*Isn't it bad to refer to Asians as Oriental?

 

[ericescobar]

powering up to super sayayin?

















jk

 

[freshone12]

thats soo funny how yall asians be all red!

my viet boys always be bright red 3 shots in. Its fine though!


and im black if that matters! being too tan to turn colors ftw!

 

[ryda421]

lots of ppl.

do you get like this

lol

 

[alchemiss]

i'm white, i turn red kinda.. more rosey lol.. especially when i drink wine, i can feel my cheeks getting hot.. smh

 

[ricekrispies420]

i get red easily, even on the first drink, but it's not because I'm a light weight..

 

[jackiechizzan]

you have inferior genes. lemme school yall:

it's not ethanol that give you the "asian glow"..it's the metabolite of ethanol after being converted by ethanol dehydrogenase: acetaldehyde.

you get red because you lack the enzyme to break down acetaldehyde (acetaldehyde dehydrogenase).

pepcid ac works by deactivating ethanol dehydrogenase...meaning you wont have acetaldehyde in your system (well not really, just a lot less of it).

the con of taking pepcid ac before drinking is that you'll have ethanol flowing in your system for a longer time without the acetaldehyde to give you thedrunken feeling.