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What is the definition or description of: alcohol sensitivity?
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Genetic condition: Common signs and symptoms of alcohol intolerance are nasal congestion and skin flushing when consuming alcohol. It is due to a genetic condition that prevents the appropriate metabolism of alcohol. May also be due to ethnicity (asian) or underlying disease such as lymphoma. See: http://www.Mayoclinic.Com/health/alcohol-intolerance/ds01172.
Answered 12/9/2013
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Alcohol Sensitivity: Is feeling of drunkenness after relatively few alcoholic drinks. Researchers at unc, chapel hill, found that those people have variation in the gene cyp2e1 which metabolizes alcohol in brain, making those people less likely to become alcoholics in future, due to such intolerance.
Answered 12/9/2013
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