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How can a typical allergic reaction be induced in a person with no known allergies??


Question: Does inflated histamine levels make one more sensitive to allergens? If so, how can histamine levels be raised?
Answers: Yes in sensitive individuals,or individuals that are sensative to histamine.
Histamine-containing foods can contribute to high histamine levels in the body. For histamine-sensitive people, this can be a problem. Recent research suggests that high levels of this essential neurotransmitter are associated with anxiety or panic attacks. Other research has shown that schizophrenia symptoms can arise from a histamine imbalance influencing brain functioning. Emotional and mental health symptoms due to abnormally high histamine could be helped simply by reducing or avoiding the high risk, high histamine, foods, and choosing low histamine foods instead.

Springtime can be hellish for hay fever suffers as the body's immune defenses go into overdrive and produce the irritating and disabling symptoms of red, itchy, watering eyes, runny nose and sneezing. The natural chemical histamine is largely responsible for this familiar but unwanted response to high levels of pollens in the atmosphere. Therefore it is often antihistamine medication and nasal sprays that are used to gain some relief.

Histamine Restricted Diet

Research published in the Journal of Nutritional & Environmental Medicine (Vol 11, no.4, 249-262) into the effects of a histamine restricted diet on allergy symptoms of patients at Vancouver Hospital, Canada, showed some unexpected but interesting ‘'food/mood' findings.

Unlike an allergic reaction to a food, a food intolerance reaction depends on the individual's sensitivity threshold as well as how much of a problem food they consume. So, this study looked into the effects of a 4-week low-histamine diet that avoided histamine-containing foods and histamine-releasing foods (see box) in order to reduce the total load of histamine in the body.
YES! Strawberries are notorious for raising histamine levels, as are several other foods.

I suppose you could induce what looks like an allergic reaction with hot peppers or cayenne powder, since it makes your eyes water and your nose run. Not pretty!


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