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" Women who drink more than 14 alcoholic beverages a week are much more likely to suffer from perennial allergic rhinitis than those who rarely drink, scientists have discovered. Perennial allergic rhinitis produces similar symptoms to hay fever (seasonal allergic rhinitis) but is usually trigger by indoor allergens such as house dust mite faeces and skin flakes from pets. Danish researchers analysed nearly 6,000 young adult women and found that the risk of allergy increases by three per cent for every additional alcoholic drink per week. Women who reported drinking more than 14 drinks a week were 78 per cent more likely to develop the problem than those who had less than one drink a week. However, alcohol did not appear to have any impact on the risk of hay fever. The findings are published in the journal Clinical and Experimental Allergy and lead author Dr Janne Tolstrup noted: &amp;#039;Our study was carried out on female participants only, and 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.&amp;#039; \u00A9 Adfero Ltd "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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