Answers.Body: <p>You are confusing the issue with alcohol and raw oysters. Alcoholism can lead to liver damage which can predispose folks towards a dangerous Vibrio infection. So folks with liver damage (including alcohol abusers) should avoid raw oysters due to the risk of vibrio. Alcohol itself has no affect on Vibrio. The low alcohol content in beer won't sterilize anything anyway (it is the boiling wort part of the MAKING of beer that made beer a "healthy" option in the olden days :)</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://www.fda.gov/Food/ResourcesForYou/HealthEducators/ucm085365.htm" rel="noreferrer">Vibrio vulnificus Health Education Kit Fact Sheet</a></p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>I do this about once a month and can confirm that it's more than safe, it's delicious. In fact during the 19th century half of London lived on porter and oysters!</p>
  
  <p>I'd recommend oyster stouts, London porters or champagne with them. Stouts and porters are particularly traditional in London </p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>If you enjoy wine, melon de bourgogne (aka Muscadet) or a chablis are a classic pairing for oysters. I also enjoy champagne or a Spanish txakoli with oysters.  </p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>Yes you absolutely can get sick from mixing oysters and alcohol. Some folks like myself do not produce enough of a certain enzyme to  block the histamines produced by consuming oysters. That plus the alcohol turn into one of the most painful and throw up filled could not eat anything for two days sicknesses I have ever experienced</p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>I felt great all day and then went to a fine restaurant, drank one beer while eating fried oysters and within 3 minutes of eating the last of 8 oysters, I got very sick, vomited more than 25 times with dry heaves and was taken by the EMS to the hospital for an overnight stay.  I was dismissed the next noon.  I have felt great ever since.</p>
  
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Body: <p>Is it okay to eat raw oysters and drink alcohol at the same time? I have heard different stories as to whether it is truly a good idea to do this. Some people say that it is not bad, others say that the alcohol can be dangerous with the bacterium (Vibrio vulnificus) contained in shellfish, while some people have told me that the alcohol can actually kill the bacterium contained in shellfish.</p>
  
  <p>Is it safe to drink alcohol and eat raw oysters? If it is okay what drinks go well with oysters?</p>
  
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Comments.Text: @Paparazzi  ["As a matter of fact, most bacteria are not harmful and many are beneficial or even essential to our wellbeing."](http://www.chicken.org.au/foodsafety/page.php?id=8)
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Comments.Text: Convenienet change of word  http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bacterium
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Comments.Text: I don't get the down-votes... seems like a reasonable, though perhaps uninformed, question.  But then, if everyone was informed, we wouldn't need Stack Exchange, amiright?
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Comments.Text: I wasn't aware that anybody could eat those things *without* alcohol. After two drinks, though, they don't bother me a bit.
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Comments.Text: Regarding Ed Plunkett and user 23466; great answers! Thank you! You answered my question and concern I have had for many years and have denied myself the much enjoyed combination. Why some people have to be so literal is beyond me. Stress will hurt a lot more folks!
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ThreadText: # Is it safe to consume alcohol while eating raw oysters?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2016-06-25)
  
  Is it okay to eat raw oysters and drink alcohol at the same time? I have heard different stories as to whether it is truly a good idea to do this. Some people say that it is not bad, others say that the alcohol can be dangerous with the bacterium (Vibrio vulnificus) contained in shellfish, while some people have told me that the alcohol can actually kill the bacterium contained in shellfish.
  
  Is it safe to drink alcohol and eat raw oysters? If it is okay what drinks go well with oysters?
  
  **Tags:** health, pairing
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: @Paparazzi  ["As a matter of fact, most bacteria are not harmful and many are beneficial or even essential to our wellbeing."](http://www.chicken.org.au/foodsafety/page.php?id=8)  
  > **username_1**: Convenienet change of word  http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bacterium  
  > **username_2**: I don't get the down-votes... seems like a reasonable, though perhaps uninformed, question.  But then, if everyone was informed, we wouldn't need Stack Exchange, amiright?  
  > **username_3**: I wasn't aware that anybody could eat those things *without* alcohol. After two drinks, though, they don't bother me a bit.  
  > **username_4**: Regarding username_3 and user 23466; great answers! Thank you! You answered my question and concern I have had for many years and have denied myself the much enjoyed combination. Why some people have to be so literal is beyond me. Stress will hurt a lot more folks!  
  
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  ### Answer by username_6 on 2016-06-25. Score: 10 | Accepted answer
  
  I do this about once a month and can confirm that it's more than safe, it's delicious. In fact during the 19th century half of London lived on porter and oysters!
  
  I'd recommend oyster stouts, London porters or champagne with them. Stouts and porters are particularly traditional in London
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_7**: Not so much safe as essential  
  
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  ### Answer by username_5 on 2016-07-14. Score: 7
  
  You are confusing the issue with alcohol and raw oysters. Alcoholism can lead to liver damage which can predispose folks towards a dangerous Vibrio infection. So folks with liver damage (including alcohol abusers) should avoid raw oysters due to the risk of vibrio. Alcohol itself has no affect on Vibrio. The low alcohol content in beer won't sterilize anything anyway (it is the boiling wort part of the MAKING of beer that made beer a "healthy" option in the olden days :)
  
  [Vibrio vulnificus Health Education Kit Fact Sheet](http://www.fda.gov/Food/ResourcesForYou/HealthEducators/ucm085365.htm)
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_8 on 2016-07-06. Score: 1
  
  If you enjoy wine, melon de bourgogne (aka Muscadet) or a chablis are a classic pairing for oysters. I also enjoy champagne or a Spanish txakoli with oysters.
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_9 on 2021-05-23. Score: 1
  
  Yes you absolutely can get sick from mixing oysters and alcohol. Some folks like myself do not produce enough of a certain enzyme to block the histamines produced by consuming oysters. That plus the alcohol turn into one of the most painful and throw up filled could not eat anything for two days sicknesses I have ever experienced
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_10**: This is interesting. If you have a name for the condition and an idea of how common it is, it would improve the answer.  
  
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  ### Answer by username_11 on 2024-08-04. Score: 0
  
  I felt great all day and then went to a fine restaurant, drank one beer while eating fried oysters and within 3 minutes of eating the last of 8 oysters, I got very sick, vomited more than 25 times with dry heaves and was taken by the EMS to the hospital for an overnight stay. I was dismissed the next noon. I have felt great ever since.
  
  
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