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That's parthesia from beta-alanine and similar. It only last 20 minutes. You'll live
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Beta-alanine will cause that. Typically in the face and hands. No big deal though.
Beta alanine, a common addition to many pre workout products increases muscle carnosine but also causes paresthesia which is tingling and or itching of the skin. For me it feels like pins and needles. Hate it.
Its harmless though.
Abstract
β-alanine, a popular supplement for muscle building, induces itch and tingling after consumption, but the underlying molecular and neural mechanisms are obscure. Here we show that, in mice, β-alanine elicited itch-associated behavior that requires MrgprD, a G protein-coupled receptor expressed by a subpopulation of primary sensory neurons. These neurons exclusively innervate the skin, respond to β-alanine, heat and mechanical noxious stimuli but do not respond to histamine. In humans, intradermally injected β-alanine induced itch but neither wheal nor flare suggesting that the itch was not mediated by histamine. Thus, the primary sensory neurons responsive to β-alanine are likely part of a histamine-independent itch neural circuit and a target for treating clinical itch that is unrelieved by anti-histamines.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3491570/
Its harmless though.
Abstract
β-alanine, a popular supplement for muscle building, induces itch and tingling after consumption, but the underlying molecular and neural mechanisms are obscure. Here we show that, in mice, β-alanine elicited itch-associated behavior that requires MrgprD, a G protein-coupled receptor expressed by a subpopulation of primary sensory neurons. These neurons exclusively innervate the skin, respond to β-alanine, heat and mechanical noxious stimuli but do not respond to histamine. In humans, intradermally injected β-alanine induced itch but neither wheal nor flare suggesting that the itch was not mediated by histamine. Thus, the primary sensory neurons responsive to β-alanine are likely part of a histamine-independent itch neural circuit and a target for treating clinical itch that is unrelieved by anti-histamines.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3491570/
I stay away from pre-workouts. Coffee does enough for me!
