# Hangover from eating raw onions.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hangover-from-eating-raw-onions/77052>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 19, 2001, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hangover-from-eating-raw-onions/77052 "2001-08-19T21:40:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2001, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hangover-from-eating-raw-onions/77052/1 "2001-08-19T21:40:59Z")

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Whenever I eat raw onions (yum) I experience all the delicious symptoms of alcoholic hangover without any of the unpleasant drunkenness, am I weird? - I tried a Google search, but all of the hits relating to ‘raw onion hangover’ seemed to be recipes including raw onions which purport to **cure** hangovers.

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**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2001, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hangover-from-eating-raw-onions/77052/2 "2001-08-19T21:51:24Z")

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I dunno, but take a look at [this page](http://allergies.about.com/library/uc/uc-onions.htm)

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**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2001, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hangover-from-eating-raw-onions/77052/3 "2001-08-19T21:53:46Z")

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BTW, I did a Google search for “raw onion allergy”

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2001, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hangover-from-eating-raw-onions/77052/4 "2001-08-19T22:04:43Z")

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Thanks **Manduck** that sounds like what I get (up until now I’ve never been allergic to anything.

I’ll probably keep on eating them though, it’s worth a little discomfort.

I had to laugh at the link on that page to ‘More Onion Testimonies’ (have you invited the power of onions into your life?)

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**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2001, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hangover-from-eating-raw-onions/77052/5 "2001-08-19T23:35:29Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Mangetout \*  
> \*\*(have you invited the power of onions into your life?) \*\*

As a matter of fact, I have 😃

Here’s [another link](http://allallergy.net/abstracts/index.cfm?ShowMonth=May2001#9)