Any Histomine Intolerant people like me out there?

I’m new to this whole thing and looking for support and inspiration to eat foods with low histamine. Went to the hospital over the weekend with horrible stomach pains from “acute spasmodic colitis” brought on by eating foods high in histamines. Anyone else experiencing this who can give guidance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

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  • neanderthin
    neanderthin Posts: 10,643 Member
    edited April 22

    I don't have a problem with histamines but I've researched it quite a bit for 2 friends and they did get relief but it's a subject that covers a lot of ground and some of it makes no sense, so it's difficult to assess what might work or not, just putting that out there.

    A big problem is it's different for everyone because things like your overall metabolic health, the state of your microbiome, enzyme deficiencies and of course high histamine foods like wine, cheese, sauerkraut, cured meats as well as aged beef for example and some veg like tomatoes and eggplant, which can be very confusing.

    There's are enzymes that are responsible for breaking down histamines in our food called diamine oxidaze (DAO) and histamine N- methyltransferase (HNMT) that help process histamine and actually ended up being the major issue for 1 friend.

    I suggest you start a food diary which both used religiously which can help pinpoint certain foods through elimination and tracking symptoms, identifying patterns that kind of thing. Of course if you tell us what your eating it might be of some help and I can only assume there's a few people here that have that problem or had it that might be able to shed some light as well.

    I'm inclined to believe that if you've been consuming the same foods, which most people do for quite a long time and then hospitalized with acute spasmodic colitis that it might be due to a possible and recent stressor, maybe medication that you might have changed or changes in the gut microbiome, which can be a multitude of factors, but that's just a guess. It sounds like they may have done the usual battery of test and have narrowed it down to food, or they didn't and just assumed it was the food, so did they perform any testing on you?

  • dancerjme2238
    dancerjme2238 Posts: 3 Member

    Yes. You are spot on. They did a catscan, took urine, and blood. The only thing that was conclusive is… I have a UTI. So guess what? I need to take an antibiotic… which is bad for what? My gut flora. Yup. Viscous cycle. I’ll get through it soon… had some acupuncture and met with my holistic healer today who basically said the same thing you did. No eggplant, tomatoes, mushrooms, grains, or cheese (or leftover proteins) for me. At least not now. Ugh. So difficult…

  • dancerjme2238
    dancerjme2238 Posts: 3 Member

    oh, and I started keeping a food diary. Thanks for the tip. 😊