r/Celiac • u/Short_Assist9535 • 7h ago
Question Anyone here get sick from beer in the air?
Just try to see numbers here, I get intensely sick from being around aerosolized beer in confined spaces.
edit+ commented below:
Pretty disappointing how many people here would rather make the same joke about beer spray cans than actually understand the question being asked.
Aerosolization doesn't require a spray can. When bubbles burst at the surface of a liquid, they eject microscopic droplets into the air. This is well established fluid mechanics, and there's literally published research demonstrating it with beer specifically.
Zhu et al. (2010), Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20644917/
Beer foam also contains higher concentrations of certain proteins than the underlying liquid, including barley-derived proteins. So the idea that bursting beer bubbles could carry some of that material into the air isn't exactly some insane proposition. Nor am I asserting this mechanism as some grand medical finding.
Nobody here claimed this was a proven mechanism for triggering celiac reactions, that's literally why I'm asking. I'm trying to see whether anyone else has experienced something similar. It's a question, not a medical assertion or advice to anyone.
What's especially embarassing is seeing this response in a community for people with a disease where individual symptoms can vary so dramatically. You'd think people here of all places would understand the difference between something being poorly studied and something being impossible.
The sheer number of people immediately jumping to ridicule over a completely harmless question is pretty telling. You don't have to believe my hypothesis, but maybe spend 30 seconds understanding it before confidently making fun of something you clearly haven't looked into.
GOOD JOB r/Celiac š