Histamine intolerance
What it is
In your body, you have many different enzymes. One of those is called diamine oxidase. Its job is, to process all the histamine that enters your body through food. Histamine itself is a kind of protein. A lot of food that you are eating daily, contains histamine. When you are histamine intolerant, it means, that you have low diamine oxidase levels and that your body can’t process histamine properly. Therefore your body suffers from an overdose of histamine.
In addition of the histamine that you have in your body thanks to food, your body is also producing histamine. If you are histamine intolerant, besides having low diamine oxidase levels, you could also suffers from low progesterone levels. As histamine is mostly produced in your uterus and your ovaries, progesterone is there to low it. That can cause infertility and miscarriages.
If you wanna go deeper and read more about histamine, we advise you to go through this website.
Symptoms
The main symptoms of histamine intolerance are the following :
headaches or migraines
fatigue
hives
digestive issues
irregular menstrual cycle
nausea
vomiting
Most of those symptoms are noticeable after you eat, take a sun bath as too much sun can also release histamine, smoke or drink alcohol. A lot of people who have histamine intolerance say that they often feel like they have to sleep, or have an itchy body right after they ate.
As the symptoms are various, and many doctors sometimes don’t automatically link them with histamine, it can be complicated to be diagnosed with histamine intolerance. To help your doctor to find the roots of your symptoms, you can already start testing how you react to certain food with high histamine levels. How ? read more here.
