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Diagnosis
How to Reduce Histamine Producing Bacteria in the Gut
If a stool test flagged Klebsiella, Enterobacter, Proteus, Morganella or Staphylococcus, or if your histamine symptoms began after antibiotics or a gut infection, you have…
Diagnosis
Postpartum Histamine Intolerance and Why Symptoms Return
Many women with histamine problems describe pregnancy as the best they have felt in years. Headaches faded, the bloating eased, wine-style reactions to leftovers disappeared,…
Symptoms
How Histamine and ADHD May Be Connected
If you live with ADHD and also deal with hay fever, sinus trouble, hives or food reactions, you may have noticed something odd: on bad…
Diet
How Long to Stay on a Low Histamine Diet
The first week of a low histamine diet often feels like losing half your kitchen. Tomatoes, aged cheese, olives, wine, leftovers, cured meats, spinach, avocado…
Diagnosis
Why hEDS, POTS and MCAS Take So Long to Diagnose
Five years and eleven months. That’s the average time it took people with postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome to get a diagnosis, according to Dysautonomia International’s…
Diet
When a Long-Term Low Histamine Diet Stops Helping
Three and a half years. That’s how long one person in a recent online discussion had followed a strict low-histamine diet before a doctor finally…
Symptoms
What Mast Cell Stabilizers Actually Do and Who They Help
For a lot of people with mast cell problems, the turning point isn’t a test result. It’s the appointment where a doctor finally listens, connects…
Diagnosis
When Antihistamines for Chronic Hives Aren’t Overkill
Picture a routine appointment with a new doctor. You hand over your medication list: an allergy pill twice a day instead of once, a heartburn…
Symptoms
Does Pepcid and Allegra for Anxiety Actually Work?
If your feed has been full of people holding up two little boxes from the pharmacy aisle, you’ve already met the trend. Pepcid and Allegra…