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Why does alcohol make my neck itch.?

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Dr. Jack Mutnick answered

Itchy skin: Alcohol is a spontaneous mast cell degranulator (the histamine containing cells in your body) so drinking alcohol can simply get them angry and release the histamine.

Dr Wright and another doctor agreed

Answered 9/29/2016

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