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Is it true that red wine causes headaches?

February 2, 2024 at 9:00 a.m. EST
(Linnea Bullion for The Washington Post)
4 min

The question:

Does drinking red wine trigger headaches more than other types of alcohol?

The science:

Many people complain of headaches after drinking red wine.

Possibly millions — many millions — of people suffer from these headaches, said Morris Levin, a neurology professor and the director of the Headache Center at the University of California at San Francisco.