Histamine Intolerance
#370933 - 02/23/14 05:30 AM
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Has anyone here tried reducing foods/drinks high in histamines?
"Histamine is a chemical which occurs naturally in certain foods. This is also one of the chemicals that is released in the body as part of an allergic reaction, causing the typical itching, sneezing, wheezing, and swelling allergy symptoms.
We all have an enzyme (diamine oxidase) which breaks down any histamine that we absorb from a histamine‐containing food. When we eat a food which contains histamine it does not affect us. However, some people have a low level of this enzyme. When they eat too many histamine‐rich foods they may suffer 'allergy‐like' symptoms such as headaches, rashes, itching, diarrhoea, and vomiting or abdominal pain. This is called histamine intolerance.
Foods that are particularly high in histamine and other vasoactive amines include:
Champagne ,wine, beer, cider and other fermented drinks and spirits
Sauerkraut and other pickled foods
Vinegar and foods containing it such as dressings, pickles, mayonnaise, ketchup, mustard
Tofu and soya sauce
Parmesan cheese and other cheeses
Sausages and other processed meats (ham, salami, gammon, bacon)
Mushrooms and quorn
Tinned and smoked fish (tuna, salmon, herring) and crustaceans
Prepared salads
Tinned vegetables
Dried fruit, seeds, nuts
Yeast extract, yeast
Chocolate, cocoa, cola
Certain foods (even food that is low in histamine) can stimulate the release of histamine from mast cells in
your body (a type of immune cell). These foods include:
Bananas
Tomatoes,
Strawberries
Nuts
Peanuts
Shellfish
Spinach
Egg white
Chocolate
Pumpkin
Aubergines
Avocado
Papayas
Kiwi
Pineapple
Mango
Raspberry
Tangerines
Grapefruits
Red prunes
Pea
Spices"
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IBS A. Managing my symptoms with the EFI/FODMAP diet and probiotics.
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I had printed off the internet a high histamine food list too, a very long time ago before this diet, but things didn't totally click with it at that time. I asked the GI why just 1/4 Benedryl antihistamine seemed to help and he just said well some people take it to relax....A naturopathic doctor told me it confuses the body. I just thought if I built up my probios ibs would stop, but it didn't. The longer cultured high probio yogurt I made was high in histamine as with fermented foods..things got worse back then, even though quiting yogurt and starting capsule probios which don't fair well with me in high cfu counts. For the last 2 1/2 days I've been taking 1/day of Zyrtec antihistamine and have felt pretty dang good. That could mean one is deficient in the enzyme diamine oxidase. I read somewhere people can get a rebound effect with anti-histamines. So would rather just try the enzyme soon.Expensive though..
I just read this from http://www.allergynutrition.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Histamine-DAO-and-Probiotics-Revised.pdf:
Focus of the Proposed Research: Diamine oxidase activity If active diamine oxidase could be supplied to the human digestive tract from a probiotic source, it may be possible to reduce the level of histamine entering the body from the digestive tract. Some preliminary research indicates that certain strains of bacteria, such as species of Lactobacillus, Leuconostoc, Escherichia faecium, Weisella and Sarcina can produce diamine oxidase (Dapkevicius et al 2000; Leuschner et al 1998). It is possible that there may be other micro-organisms capable of synthesising the enzyme, which could be exploited in the production of a probiotic food able to deliver the deficient enzyme to the human gut.
Edited by sgcray (05/17/16 12:46 PM)
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