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Question: Please help me. I have major histamine and salycilate intolerance. The ONLY veg I can eat without inflamming my stomach is sebago potato as ALL of the other safe foods (pears, lettuce, swede, sweet potato) I definitely cannot eat. My histamine levels are high without eating any of the histamine foods for the last 12 months and I cannot take any probiotics have tried heaps even ones that supposedly lower histamine.
I have been eating only brown rice for some nutrition 2 meals a day and potato once plus a tiny bit of safe beef every second day. Now the brown rice is not digesting so I am so frustrated. I cannot take digestive enzymes as they have histamine. I occasionally try cauliflower with the rice but can feel the inflammation after. I have raised the amount of HCL betaine to 8 gms from 1 gm at each meal in the last week to help with the digestion but I can still feel the brown rice sitting in my stomach (hurting).
My local doctors can not give me any help as all my levels are average except for high ferritin (inflammation) not genetic and am supposed to be perfectly healthy, even with . I have had stool tests done that show my bowels are clear of candida and no other bad bacteria only lacking lactobacilious (which I cannot take). I am also always constipated and cannot take most supplements even Vit C, Vit B, Vit D but am able and take zinc and a mega magnesium daily.
I have not eaten junk food for over 7 years and had only eaten vegetables and meat with very low carbs during the last 7 years until I developed the salycilate and histamine intolerance. I honestly do not know what to eat or what to do to get my digestive system to work correctly. I am underweight no matter how much food I eat.
I thank you for any help you can give me.
Yours truly
XXXX
I have been eating only brown rice for some nutrition 2 meals a day and potato once plus a tiny bit of safe beef every second day. Now the brown rice is not digesting so I am so frustrated. I cannot take digestive enzymes as they have histamine. I occasionally try cauliflower with the rice but can feel the inflammation after. I have raised the amount of HCL betaine to 8 gms from 1 gm at each meal in the last week to help with the digestion but I can still feel the brown rice sitting in my stomach (hurting).
My local doctors can not give me any help as all my levels are average except for high ferritin (inflammation) not genetic and am supposed to be perfectly healthy, even with . I have had stool tests done that show my bowels are clear of candida and no other bad bacteria only lacking lactobacilious (which I cannot take). I am also always constipated and cannot take most supplements even Vit C, Vit B, Vit D but am able and take zinc and a mega magnesium daily.
I have not eaten junk food for over 7 years and had only eaten vegetables and meat with very low carbs during the last 7 years until I developed the salycilate and histamine intolerance. I honestly do not know what to eat or what to do to get my digestive system to work correctly. I am underweight no matter how much food I eat.
I thank you for any help you can give me.
Yours truly
XXXX
Brief Answer:
Hi XXXX, welcome to HCM, you are an interesting case,
Detailed Answer:
Hi XXXX, welcome to HCM, you are an interesting case, and I would definitely like to help you with the experience I have. Please try the following--
Get some probiotic capsules (4)and empty them into a litre of yoghurt. Use this seasoning to make fresh yoghurt every time. After the first lot is over, continue to use fresh yoghurt that you have made (your lactobacilli will have generated) for seasoning. Take a bowl of this twice a day.
Take well mashed potato and white rice till you start digesting.
Dry roast cummin and coriander seeds, powder and bottle. Boil one litre water after adding 2 tsf of this powder daily to it. Cool and drink half a cup every four hours
Take an Omeprazole 20 mg once a day half an hour before breakfast and a liquid antacid 2 tsf noon and night before meals.
All this for three months.
You can follow up. I will be very interested in knowing how you do. regards
Hi XXXX, welcome to HCM, you are an interesting case,
Detailed Answer:
Hi XXXX, welcome to HCM, you are an interesting case, and I would definitely like to help you with the experience I have. Please try the following--
Get some probiotic capsules (4)and empty them into a litre of yoghurt. Use this seasoning to make fresh yoghurt every time. After the first lot is over, continue to use fresh yoghurt that you have made (your lactobacilli will have generated) for seasoning. Take a bowl of this twice a day.
Take well mashed potato and white rice till you start digesting.
Dry roast cummin and coriander seeds, powder and bottle. Boil one litre water after adding 2 tsf of this powder daily to it. Cool and drink half a cup every four hours
Take an Omeprazole 20 mg once a day half an hour before breakfast and a liquid antacid 2 tsf noon and night before meals.
All this for three months.
You can follow up. I will be very interested in knowing how you do. regards
Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Raju A.T
Thank you for your answer although it totally puzzles me. Because I have extreme histamine intolerance I have not been able to take ANY PROBIOTICS (I feel like I have been poisoned and cannot even stand up if I take 2 capsules) as I stated in my original question, but you are recommending that I take it.
You are recommending lowering stomach acid when I do not have any symptoms of high acid such as heartburn etc. and I thought it was because of low stomach acid is the reason my digestion is not working correctly. Does high stomach acid interfere with digestion of complex carbohydrates?
Regards
XXXX
You are recommending lowering stomach acid when I do not have any symptoms of high acid such as heartburn etc. and I thought it was because of low stomach acid is the reason my digestion is not working correctly. Does high stomach acid interfere with digestion of complex carbohydrates?
Regards
XXXX
Brief Answer:
Hi XXXX, Taking pro biotics as capsules disagrees with you.
Detailed Answer:
Hi XXXX, for patients like you, we have to think out of the box, at the same time not resorting to anything un-safe.
Taking pro biotics as capsules disagrees with you. But taken as I have suggested will not. We are adding it to the yoghurt seasoning (one litre of yoghurt) and then using the same yoghurt for fresh seasoning, which is not the same as taking Pro-biotic capsules. You can try 2 capsules instead of 4 if you want.Pro-biotics also improve insulin action thus aiding in absorption and assimilation of carbohydrates by the body.
Secondly, acidity can present as indigestion, heart burn, migraine, GERD, water brash, and urticaria(rash--histaminic reaction). Both low and high acid can interfere with digestion. As you have correctly understood, acid is required for digestion (including complex carbohydrates) if there is insufficient amount, it will interfere with digestion.
On the other hand imagine this scenario--there is acid build up much more than normal in the stomach. It will destroy your digestive juices and thus interfere with digestion. The body always wants balance. If there is excess or less of anything, it does not like it and there is a problem.
I am advising you based on my 35 years of experience as a consultant in medicine and a health author.
You can also try adding a digestive enzyme preparation. I hope my advise is clear to you now. All the best and regards.
Hi XXXX, Taking pro biotics as capsules disagrees with you.
Detailed Answer:
Hi XXXX, for patients like you, we have to think out of the box, at the same time not resorting to anything un-safe.
Taking pro biotics as capsules disagrees with you. But taken as I have suggested will not. We are adding it to the yoghurt seasoning (one litre of yoghurt) and then using the same yoghurt for fresh seasoning, which is not the same as taking Pro-biotic capsules. You can try 2 capsules instead of 4 if you want.Pro-biotics also improve insulin action thus aiding in absorption and assimilation of carbohydrates by the body.
Secondly, acidity can present as indigestion, heart burn, migraine, GERD, water brash, and urticaria(rash--histaminic reaction). Both low and high acid can interfere with digestion. As you have correctly understood, acid is required for digestion (including complex carbohydrates) if there is insufficient amount, it will interfere with digestion.
On the other hand imagine this scenario--there is acid build up much more than normal in the stomach. It will destroy your digestive juices and thus interfere with digestion. The body always wants balance. If there is excess or less of anything, it does not like it and there is a problem.
I am advising you based on my 35 years of experience as a consultant in medicine and a health author.
You can also try adding a digestive enzyme preparation. I hope my advise is clear to you now. All the best and regards.
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Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Raju A.T
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