Millions of allergy sufferers experience discomfort each allergy season.
As they react to their environment, they feel they have no choice but to take antihistamines.
But your body's response to allergies isn't fixed – it's determined by your health and the diversity and strength of your microbiome.
Allergy symptoms can be significantly reduced or even eliminated by treating underlying conditions (like an untreated infection), improving gut health, and restoring the microbiome with the right probiotics.
Darmgesundheit, histamine and probiotics
Robust gut health isn't just about taking the right probiotic.
There's a reason why allergy symptoms and digestive upsets are often intertwined, and that's histamine.
When histamine and poor gut health combine, they can cause not only heightened allergy symptoms, but also digestive issues like bloating, cramping, indigestion and acid reflux.
Excess histamine may even play a role in autoimmune diseases like Crohn's disease and arthritis.
Addressing the root cause is not only key to reducing (or eliminating) your seasonal allergies, it also helps you feel better overall.
Histamine can cause digestive problems
As allergy season kicks off every year, many of us experience typical allergy symptoms.
These symptoms can range from headaches and sneezing to lesser-known symptoms like digestive issues and dizziness.
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All these symptoms can be caused by an excess of histamine in the body.
How allergies cause histamine
Histamine is released when a perceived threat or foreign substance enters the body.
These foreign substances can be things like dust, pollen, and the foods we eat every day.
When a foreign substance is detected, mast cells release histamine to tell your body to respond to the threat.
In response to the release of histamine, surrounding blood vessels dilate, causing an increase in white blood cells and blood plasma proteins in that area.
Immune system proteins (antibodies) bind to the invading foreign substance (antigens).
When allergies cause severe symptoms, it may be the result of your immune system overreacting to the perceived foreign invader.
This overreaction can be due to many factors, but in the case of seasonal allergies, it's usually because the body can't keep up with the number of perceived threats flooding its system.
Chronic disease and histamine
Histamine can not only cause symptoms like flatulence, stomach cramps and diarrhea, but chronic illnesses can also be rich in histamine.
Chronic conditions with a histamine component
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Those who suffer from seasonal allergies have higher than normal histamine levels.
In most of these cases, these elevated histamine levels are due to a digestive disorder or microbial imbalance in the digestive tract.
If you've been diagnosed with IBS, Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, or acid reflux, one key to improving your allergy symptoms (as well as your other symptoms) is to improve your digestive health.
Improving your digestive health lowers your histamine levelscan significantly reduce or completely eliminate allergy symptoms.
A diverse microbiome for overall health
Extending throughout your body (including your sinuses and ears), your microbiome is incredibly diverse.
Even a different diet for just a few weeks can fundamentally change the makeup of our microbiome.
Think of it as a rainforest teeming with thousands of different species, all forming a delicate ecosystem.When you get an infection, it's like there's now an invasive species in your ecosystem.
If we take antibiotics, you cut down the whole rainforest; This happens every time you take antibiotics.
Many of my patients have taken anywhere from 2 to 50 courses of antibiotics in their lifetime, which is why allergies (environmental, seasonal, and dietary) are so common.
The prevailing advice after a course of antibiotics is to take a probiotic, usually with just one or two strains of bacteria.
Just as replanting two types of trees where there once was a rainforest isn't enough, throwing out a few seeds won't do much to replenish what you had.
Because of this, many people experience symptoms such as fatigue, constipation, gastrointestinal problems and decreased immunity after prolonged use of antibiotics.
Other factors, such as pesticide exposure or cesarean delivery, can negatively affect our microbiome diversity.
3 steps to improve allergy symptoms
Step 1: Exclude other complications
step 2: Healing the microbiome
step 3: reduce histamine
Step 1: Rule out other complications
If your allergy symptoms are severe, you have a chronic condition (such as an autoimmune disease or chronic pain), or you have other non-allergic symptoms, functional medical testing can help you determine if there is a major underlying cause for all of your allergy symptoms. symptoms.
AParasitethe onefood sensitivityit could be the reason for your fatigue, headaches and severe allergies.
low stomach acidit is aringwormit could be the cause of your diarrhea, anxiety and insomnia.
Rather than wasting money and time with a step-by-step approach, functional medical tests are designed to catch things that often go unnoticed, even if you always get your annual checkup.
Functional medicine tests are different than what you would get at your local hospital.
Rather than looking for a marker or just confirming a diagnosis, we look at things like intestinal permeability and neurotransmitter function.
Your exam not only gives us an overview of your health, it can also solve many long-term mysteries.unexplained symptoms, fatigue, or multiple chronic conditions.
Functional medicine is also excellent for reducing the risk of chronic disease. I offeronline appointmentsand personal consultations for functional medicine.
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Step 2: Heal the Microbiome
These suggestions assume that you don't have circumstances that need to be addressed first (such as those listed above).
Once I or another functional physician has ruled them out, we can proceed.Add things to your digestive tract that fortify beneficial strains to reduce allergy symptoms.
The Best Strains of Probiotics for Allergies
Lactobacillus rhamnosus,
Bifidobacterium infantis
Bifidobacterium longum
Just as important as building your microbiome and treating any underlying infections is not taking anything that makes it harder for your body to deal with seasonal allergies.
The following list can be problematic for people with seasonal allergies because they make or break down histamine themselves.
The Worst Strains of Probiotics or Infections for Allergies
Histamine Producers:
Candida (not a probiotic, but a troublesome fungal infection)
Citrobacter (problematic intestinal bacterial infection)
C. perfringens (bacterial infection)
E. coli (occurring naturally in the gut; overgrowth can contribute to allergies and symptoms of bowel dysfunction)
H. pylori (bacterial infection, a common contributor to acid reflux and a variety of digestive disorders)
Lactobacillus bulgaricus
Lactobacillus casei
Lactobacillus reuteri
staphylococcus
S. thermophile
3. Reduce histamine
Reducing your histamine levels while repairing your microbiome would go a long way in alleviating your allergy symptoms.
One of the best ways to do this would be to not expose yourself to as many environmental allergens and change your diet.
How to reduce your exposure to histamine
The pollen load is greatest in the early hours of the morning until midday.If you can, postpone your outdoor activities until later in the day.
invest in aair filterto your house (or at least your room)
Avoid histamine-rich foods(such as dairy, smoked meats, and avocados)
Probiotics to reduce histmin (histamine breakers)
Bifidobacterium infantis
Bifidobacterium longum
Lactobacillus gasseri
Lactobacillus rhamnosus
lactobacillus plants
Lactobacillus salivarius
If you arehistamine intolerant, which is a condition that can be greatly improved with testing and treatment of functional medications, as most causes of histamine intolerance are treatable.
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Functional medicine for allergic symptoms.
Functional medicine is best suited for problems that conventional medicine misses.
Rather than prescribing an antihistamine or medication as a first step, we investigate why you are experiencing these symptoms and, in most cases, we are able to alleviate the symptoms naturally.
I offer functional medicine consultations online and in person.During your 1-hour consultation as a new patient, we review all of your medical history, family history, medical history, past exams and current symptoms and goals. Based on what we find, I can order specific tests to confirm your diagnosis and assess your physiology from a holistic perspective.Most of the underlying issues I find associated with severe seasonal allergy symptoms can be treated naturally, and patients begin to notice symptom relief within weeks.
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