Hi everyone, I think i get the most severe form of the asian flush, im 100% russian, the flushes are a real inconvenience, but since i dont really care about what others think, i drink a lot. When I say a lot, I mean I used to do up to 4 litres of beer a night for periods longer than 6 month. I now do up to 2 litres a night 2-4 times a week. Ive been drinking heavily for at least 4 years. I get these symptoms on random nights about every fifth one
Here are my symptoms, as you may be able to tell from the prelude they are on the extereme:
Going extremely red
Difficulty breathing
Red patches all over body from the feet up
Itchy skin, where the red patches are
If itched subsequent hive/hives
Blocked nose
Thundering heartbeat that is felt in every part of the body mainly the head BP over 220
Lots of clear flaem
Phenomenally loud and severe snoring
Usually pass out from the symtoms with the thought that I will not wake up
If there are no symptoms on the 4 nights of the time and I have sex, they will all pop up almost stright after I come
If disregarding the symptoms still drink, more than 6 litres then the whole thing repeats again in the morning and is fixed by a drink
Now to what helps for me in the order of effectiveness
Activated coal tablets 1 pill for every 10 kg of body wieght 8 for me
Drinking with water, one sip beer, one sip water
Only drink high quality beer
No hard liquer or wine
Only stick to one sort of beer per night
Cold bath
More beer, but will have to pay for it the next day
Wouldn't drink at all if not my line of work (Own an Australia wide recruitment company and part own a manufacturing plant in Russia) lots of meetings and stress, any russian deal usually cant be done without drinking, most of Ausie deal also involve beer
Stopped drinking completely about a month ago
1.83m 83kg live in Australia
This post is intended to point out that no matter how bad it is, it can be worse
PS know a lot of people with the same problem who drank and keep drinking more than me
PPS dont usually get the symptoms from anything less than 0.5L, guess Im just used to it by now