[lurking15]

Sounds like you've identified that histamine is an issue for you. Vitamin C will clear serum histamine, citric acid is bad since it's a fermented byproduct of black mold (likely triggers histamine release from impurities).

In my IBS journey I had a period where I had very strong histamine intolerance, and vitamin C (in the form of QBC vitamin, quercetin + bromelain + vitamin C) really helped stabilize me. Histamine intolerance often led to chronic insomnia, my heart just would not calm down at night.

[davzie]

Can confirm I found help in Solgar Quercetin. I’m convinced it’s all stress related though and the stress is causing imbalances in the body.

[anonymous344]

thank you and God bless! I found out about this histamine when drinking wine and after got cramps. But did not find cure for it. B12 which was one aid, normally makes my stomach bad imeadiately. Will try QBC

[lurking15]

Happy to help!

In my research trying to help myself I've come to the conclusion that histamine intolerance is really more of a symptom of a larger issue. It seems to suggest SIBO or any other sort of inflammatory process in the small intestine. Reason being that dysbiosis (of which SIBO is just one sort) has multiple synergizing effects: not only that often the bacteria associated with dysbiosis will produce lots of histamine through fermentation activity (there's a certain klebsiella type I've seen implicated) but also the dysbiosis causes a cascade of issues that degrades the gut lining which increases the amount of dietary histamine that crosses into the body.

Otherwise I've seen histamine intolerance also suggestive of Crohn's, etc. where the gut lining is chronically damaged.

Like you said wine often reveals it for people, also vinegar, aged cheese, meat or seafood. It's funny that now that I know what to look for I notice when eating with people when they get a stuffy nose right after eating that stuff.