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Sixty seconds on . . . red wine headache

BMJ 2023; 383 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.p2786 (Published 24 November 2023) Cite this as: BMJ 2023;383:p2786
  1. Abi Rimmer
  1. The BMJ

Why are you shouting?

It’s good news! Scientists at the University of California, Davis, think they’ve found why some people develop a headache after drinking red wine.

But I only had one glass

It doesn’t matter: they say that a typical “red wine headache” can be caused by as little as one glass and can occur 30 minutes to three hours after consumption. …

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