Danish scientists have discovered that the more alcohol a woman drinks, the more likely she is to suffer from perennial allergic rhinitis.
Unlike hay fever, which tends to be seasonal, perennial allergic rhinitis is an allergy that occurs all year round and is caused by faeces from house dust mites and pet skin.
A study in the journal Clinical & Experimental Allergy now suggests that the risk of developing the allergy increases by around three per cent for every additional alcoholic beverage a woman consumes per week.
The study involved 5,870 young adult women, none of whom suffered from allergic rhinitis at the start of the study.
At the end of seven to nine years, 523 (nine per cent) of the women had developed perennial allergic rhinitis.
Those who had more than 14 drinks a week were 78 per cent more likely to develop the allergy than those who had less than one drink a week.
Dr Janne Tolstrup, lead author at Denmark's National Institute of Public Health, commented: "It should be recognised that there is evidence to suggest that women may be more susceptible to some of the genetically harmful effects of alcohol than men, perhaps due to differences in fat to water ratio or liver mass to body weight ratio."
Danish scientists have discovered that the more alcohol a woman drinks, the more likely she is to suffer from perennial allergic rhinitis.
