Menopause Matters Forum
Menopause Discussion => All things menopause => Topic started by: Nellie Noo on February 20, 2018, 08:35:58 PM
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Has anybody any knowledge of histamine intolerance .? There is apparently quite a strong connection between oestrogen , menopause, and histamine. I was reading about histamine on the net and although a lot of the stuff i couldnt understand ... there seems to be a strong connection between allergies, itchy skin, nausea, headaches, ibs even flushes that can be caused by high oestrogen ( peri ) which leads to high histamine in our bodies, from food and drink . Like i said .. some of what i read i struggled with, but it seems a low histamine diet can control a lot of symtoms
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I use anti-histamine medication to ease allergy-type symptoms as well as aiding sleep on an occasional basis.
As oestrogen levels drop so the body may dry: skin, nostrils, deep in the ears, vagina ......... I don't understand what 'high' oestrogen is :-\ in peri oestrogen levels drop.
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Oestrogen levels can be higher than progesterone levels in peri . So although they are “dropping “ we get oestrogen dominance . X
I never knew certain foods and drink contained histamine ... and if you have an overload as such, you can get all these symtoms .. that are so like meno symtoms .
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Do you have a list of foods - I'm suffering a cold this week and have no energy to 'search' :-\
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Hi i have an intolerance to histamine since i was in my early 40's , i'm 54 now and it has definitely gotten worse with menopause , mine resultin in swelling around my eues ans mouth which without taking steroids can take around 10 days to get better , but it leaves me with very dry and sore skin , i take fexofenedine every day and try and stay clear of foods with high levels of histamine , especially fish which for me seems to be a big trigger food , that and stress
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For someone who has histamine problems ( anaphylaxis) for 30 years now I know very little ! But peri brought on an increase of silly reactions. Swollen lips, eyes, itching etc oh and asthma ! I didn't even know foods contained histamine
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Wow. I have just been prescribed antihistamines as my body was itching all the time and I was breaking out in hives. I asked gp if this was a menopause symptom and she said no but couldn't offer an explanation . So glad u posted about this..thought I was going mad!!!
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Well i had noticed quite a few things that made me look on google. Couldnt drink red wine without sneezing and getting itchy eyes ( cant tolerate it at all, now )
Was struggling with bad hayfever in march ! For the last 3 years ! Have never had it before !
. Cant touch certain fruit without having a reaction in my mouth ... like an oral allergy . And the list goes on .. so when i read that certain foods and drink had histamine in them, and that once you have “loaded†up your histamine bucket in your body .. you will get a reaction.. whether its itchy skin .. hives .. sneezing etc . Then to read that there is a connection between oestrogen levels and histamine ... well it sort of made sense to me! Our bodies are very complicated !!!!😳
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My allergic reactions to things have greatly increased since I came off HRT - I'm very post meno so really low oestrogen!! I use Benconase regularly or my nasal passages stream during the day and I'm terribly stuffy at night. My skin is itchy and my mouth is dry and I have more outbreaks of dermatitis. Lack of oestrogen causes a lot of problems.
Oestrogen dominance is a bit of a 'red herring' - we don't get too much oestrogen in peri menopause, its simply we get fluctuations wen the oestrogen dips due to erratic ovulation - sometimes progesterone in early peri meno or HRT in mid to late peri can correct the balance and prevent erratic bleeding. I found in early pregnancy, I was more sensitive to allergens - I believe this is when we produce a lot of progesterone??? DG x