@Beachbum I am sorry to hear you are suffering with histamine intolerance, it is scary when your food choices keep dwindling because it the so many different reactions. Mine got so bad with blistering rashes and other itching and ashes that would last a month. I had terrible insomnia, sudden vomiting that lasted all night, heart palpitations and eventually a life threatening episode of angiodema where I woke in the morning with my lips swollen three times bigger than their normal size and my tongue swollen to outside of my mouth to where I couldn’t close it. They were awful times that last several years.
When I had histamine intolerance I was on 12-hour Claritin twice a day for more than two years. When my heart wasn’t acting right I found on the Claritin site that heart issues can result from taking it. I was a little panicked about that because I never bothered reading about the side effects. I immediately went off of it and knew I had a struggle ahead of me going through the healing cold turkey. Candied ginger and stinging nettle leaf really helped me a lot. It was restaurant food that affected me the worst, so I stopped going out as much and was real careful about what I ordered when I had to go out. I NEVER ordered soups or any sauces, just plain old meat and vegetables.
As for really healing getting fluoride out of my drinking water was a HUGE help in healing. I bought a countertop gravity filter to remove the fluoride from my drinking water, which I also and still do use to make ice cubes. I also put shower filters on my shower heads and do not soak in baths.
I stopped eating fresh fruit and meat from the refrigerator section and only ate flash frozen meat and fruit. I still only eat frozen meat and still rely a lot on frozen fruit. Fresh fruit in the market is just too old and histamines intolerance reacts to aged things. The older the food is the higher amount of histamines there are in them. We have an imaginary bucket in us with Histamine Intolerance and until you heal you are only allotted a certain amount of histamine at a time and when that bucket is full and spills over is when the symptoms occur. I don’t think bread is particularly the dire issue for now it is the aged foods, leftovers and seafood too.
The thing that REALLY helped was Ray Peat saying that sugar, salt and caffeine are good natural antihistamines. That is when I finally started eating sugar. I did all the other Ray Peat things, even eating liver, but I never cared for sweet things so I didn’t do that part. When I finally added sugar liberally into my diet things got much better quicker. I drank a lot of Mexican Coke, sipping on one a day. There was a study that proved that guzzling a Coke quickly worked better for anaphylactic shock than an Epi-pen.
Start with implementing these things and food logging. That helped me figure out what my body didn’t like. Seriously Susan get the aged foods like hard cheeses, refrigerator meats, ground beef especially, fresh fruit, avocados, seafood, and fermented things like beer, wine, kombucha and sauerkraut out of your diet.
Let’s start here and see where you are in a week. You’ll get better.😘
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