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Tis the Season of Sneezin

[fa icon="calendar'] Sep 17, 2019 12:46:01 PM / by Isadora Guggenheim

Newborn baby first days drinking breast milk
 
What does breastfeeding have to do with allergy season? What is the secret ingredient in breast milk that protects us against allergies and other diseases?
Breast milk, the perfect super food, is rich in diamine oxidase. It prevents allergies, raises I.Q. points and is critical for good health. Diamine oxidase is an enzyme that breaks down histamine. Histamine is an biomolecule that is released from mast cells and other white blood cells in allergic reactions. It was discovered in anaphylactic allergic reactions that caused life-threatening symptoms. All foods contain histamine except rice and potatoes, so changing the diet to remove histamines is not practical.  
 
Do you have high histamine symptoms?
High histamine or histamine intolerance causes headache, diarrhea, migraines, dripping nose especially after eating food, asthma, heart palpitations, low blood pressure, hives and painful periods. Patients with Crohn's or Celiac disease have high histamine and low DAO diamine oxidase levels. Low histamine levels cause fatigue, depression and are associated with narcolepsy, Alzheimer's, convulsions and seizures. Individuals with histamine intolerance seem to react to everything and they improve with antihistamines. When histamine and diamine oxidase are out of balance this is a clinical indication of "leaky gut." Patients with chronic "gut failure" have low to no DAO values. A small subgroup of individuals are born without diamine oxidase, but most of us lose our enyzme status due to environmental insults.  
 
Histamine intolerance is only diagnosed by a lab test that measures the ratio between histamine and diamine oxidase. We offer testing at Second Nature for histamine intolerance.  
 
Contact Second Nature Naturopathic Care
 
Is there treatment for this condition?
You bet. We recommend XYMOGEN's HistDAO, Bio:C, B-Activ, Omega 820, ProbioMax DF, GOOD GUT Repair, GOOD GUT Detox and IgG CWP plus a low histamine diet.  Call to learn more about this supplements protocol.

Topics: Child and Teen Health, Allergies

Isadora Guggenheim

Written by Isadora Guggenheim

Isadora Guggenheim, ND, FNP, RN, MS, CNS, LMT, owner of Second Nature Naturopathic Care, LLC
For all appointments: Tel: 845 358-8385 Fax: 845 358-2963 drguggenheim@msn.com